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are printed, but .also the means of subsistence, and the mate- 

 rial for apparel to the many tens of thousands, both of those 

 who provide, and those who work the machinery, as well as 

 those who finger the type. Thus, while one does not live 

 alone and without the other, but the doings of each contribute 

 to the needs and profit of all others, interchangeably, the 

 yields of the farm constitute the real sine qua non, that with- 

 out which nothing can be done. 



So of other arts, including those which result from discov- 

 ery, as that of steam-power; now, indeed, the great power 

 utilized by the printer as well as by others. Agriculture 

 itself is an art, which, aided as it is in its processes by science, 

 contributes ill multitudinous ways to its own development, 

 furtherance and growth, as well as to remuneration. And 

 therefore, whatever tends to the cultivation of and improve- 

 ment in this art, — such as the organization of agricultural 

 societies, the constituting of state boards of agriculture, the 

 founding and supporting of agricultural colleges, and espe- 

 cially the annual society, state and national reports, which 

 are the mouthpieces of all our doings, — all this is bringing 

 wealth to the body politic, as well as substance to the farmers 

 themselves, the laborers, the mechanics and the tradesmen of 

 the Commonwealth and of the country at large. 



Nor should horticulture be forgotten here, for it is linked 

 with agriculture, like one Siamese twin to the other. It is 

 the Cullura Agris as truly as the other, only it is usually 

 worked on smaller lots. It was first practised in the Garden 

 of Eden. It was prosecuted on the hanging gardens of Baby- 

 lon, and has flourished more or less in all lands where enlight- 

 ened husbandry has been prominent ; but in no time probably 

 to so great and useful an extent as within the last century. 

 In the published Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticult- 

 ural Society, printed in the year 1852, is an historical sketch 

 of that society, written in 1850, by Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn, 

 its first president. In that sketch is the following paragraph : — > 



" The science and art of horticulture, even in the oldest and most 

 enlightened nations of Europe, had not claimed that earnest atten- 

 tion to which they were eminently entitled before the middle of the 

 last century ; and it was not until the commencement of the present 

 that a zealous spirit of inquiry was excited and efficient measures 

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