24 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1904. 



or art in the grounds about dwellings. Through it the highways 

 are made delightful with trees, gardens are tastefully laid out, 

 forming a pleasure in themselves, and' an element of beauty 

 in the landscape. Wherever it touches it gives the impression 

 of wealth and happiness in nature, which is skilfully enhanced 

 through contributions rich and unique, coming from different 

 lands and contrasting climates. 



The love of gardening seems natural to very many. Man 

 has an inherent love of these beautiful things, but there still 

 exists, largely through a great lack of education in early life, 

 something wanting in the practice of horticulture in its higher 

 branches. An anecdote is related of the late Joseph Breck, 

 once president of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, when 

 riding in a street car with a large bouquet in his hands. 

 A little girl kept passing back and forth before him, and 

 evidently admiring the flowers so much that he took out some 

 and gave her. Some time after, he was riding again when 

 a little girl, whom he did not recognize, kept passing before 

 him and looking up at him, and on being asked if she knew 

 him, she replied: "0, yes, you are the gentleman who gave 

 me the flowers." Mr. Breck turned to a friend beside him, 

 and with tears in his eyes, said: ''We can afford to be at some 

 pains to grow and distribute flowers if they give so much happi- 

 ness." 



Those who enjoy beautiful natural or cultivated scenery 

 occupy a higher plane than those who do not. There is nothing 

 more beautiful than the bloom of many of the fruit trees. 

 It is an interesting fact that there is no fruit until after the 

 flower, — beauty comes before reproduction. 



The President now introduced Miss Mary C. Henry, principal 

 of Upsala street school, who explained how gardens of that 

 school were cultivated by the pupils. 



A small portion of the schoolyard is taken for the garden. 

 The ground is marked off and spaded. In turning up the soil, 

 the lavse of many insects are found. These are put one side 

 for future study. The plots are made and the depth for plant- 



