1904.] ESSAY. 95 



insoet and fiui<2;us diseases, leaA'ing it in condition to i)r()duce 

 the best greenhouse ero])s. 



There are good niark(>t gardeners who still avoid the green- 

 house, but use hotbeds for plant growing, and are sueeessful 

 in the instructions which are acquired in growing, in this nuieh 

 more simple form, plants and crops suitable to tlu>ni. Hut 

 the greenhouse in comparison with the hotbed is like tlie 

 college to the primary school. The market gardener wh.o 

 can step up from the hotbed to the greenhouse and woi'k this 

 successfully, has reached the highest degree, scientifically, in 

 the horticultural profession. 



To be a proficient, up-to-date market gardener requires some 

 education, but if deficient he soon gets there, for he is always 

 a student. President Charles KYioi, of Harvard College, would 

 make an excellent horticulturist because he is an idealist. The 

 great university is his ideal, for there he is now engaged in 

 conceiving and building up a magnificent structure for the 

 education of coming generations. 



The market gardener should be well read, not alone in the 

 agricultural magazines and newspapers, but also in the very 

 best standard books on agriculture, horticulture and the raising 

 of stock. The old time gardener and farmer cared but very 

 little for book information, and no wonder, for in his day there 

 was* but little to be had, but today no question in agriculture, 

 the science of horticulture, the raising of stock, the dairy and 

 the science of poultry raising but are to be had; and all this 

 at so slight a cost that no progressive producer can afford to 

 be without the books, the modern publications, without which 

 the market gardener would be like a ship witliout rutlder or 

 compass, her captain endeavoring to navigate the seas. 



It is by reading that we learn what has been done in the 

 past; and prepare for the future by as broad a knowletlge as 

 possible, how seeds are raised, plants are grown, whether from 

 seed or cuttings, and wliicli are best. All this can be learned 

 from reading. 



Let the farmer and horticulturist then consider his occupa- 



