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awaken quickness of thought and aptness of methods in 

 many waj's. 



There are some conditions to be dealt with in the evolution 

 of horticulture that awaken in us a spirit of antagonism, but 

 there is no sense in our disrespectful treatment of them because 

 they do not meet our approval. The department stores have 

 come into our commercial life, and many of us regret exceed- 

 ingly that this method has been brought about. We rasp 

 under the fact, but the department store has come to stay ; it 

 is a factor of our business, and the quicker we recognize this 

 and suit ourselves to it, the better we will get along. In the 

 evolution of a truer manhood, mechanics are urged to own 

 their own homes and have little gardens in connection with 

 them. The horticulturist says this will take a large part of our 

 market, because the mechanic gets his cash for his labor and 

 spends it for our products. It will not be any keen satisfaction 

 to us to kick against this development; it is a better one for 

 mankind, and the thing for us to do is to suit ourselves to the 

 condition, and be as helpful as we can to our fellows in the 

 mechanical industries, who seek to be happier by growing the 

 delicate things of the earth in their own backyards. 



The gardener who, in the years gone by, was in the habit 

 of getting quite large returns from his market -gardens, finds 

 that the man next to him with almost no land at all, with a 

 glass structure, will make as much money as he does in a 

 year. There is no sense in kicking against the glass. The 

 thing to do is to make glass a factor in one's own gardening; 

 and so I predict that the gardens of the future will most of 

 them in our climate have as a prominent feature the forcing 

 house. Glass is at the front; it will maintain its ascendency 

 because it helps men to control the climatic conditions which 

 ensure success in the growing of products. 



There is a new type of middleman that it seems to me 

 would be well for us to recognize as a partner in the business 

 side of horticulture, and that is the man who sizes up our 

 ablility as horticulturists and comes to us with ofifers for our 

 products, saying that he will take them as we grow them and 

 deliver them where they will do the most good. I own that 

 from my own experience, the man who can successfully grow the 



