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horticulturist who actuallv^ by prophetic skill, develops out of 

 the elements of his art, the real thing upon which that land- 

 scape is based, an artist as truly as the one who handles brush 

 and pigments? My own view may magnify the art that I love 

 so well, but it seems to me, in our field we have an art as 

 delicate, as attractive, as elevating and as influential as any art 

 in the world. 



Now, while you rest your back and think for a minute, let 

 me call your attention to the field of education. The man who 

 has climbed by hard work through The schools to a commanding 

 position as the result of unremitting study is very likely to 

 feel that his reach is longer, his vision is wider than the one 

 whose work and thought are in connection with the soil; but 

 there are certain indications that in the field occupied by the 

 educators there is a growing recognition of the value of that 

 education which comes through a skilful development of the 

 products of the earth. Instead of that sort of patronizing 

 method which was once quite common on the part of the 

 educated man of the schools in dealing with the educated man 

 of the soil, we find in these later days that the schools them- 

 selves recognize the importance of the farmer's field as one in 

 which to do their best work ; and instead of having any of the 

 top-loftyism about them in connection with the men who 

 occupy positions in rural life, they are trying to get into closer 

 companionship with the farmer and the horticulturist; and to- 

 day there is a general feeling that has been growing with the 

 years that we all are climbing upward, and that the mountain 

 up which the horticulturist is climbing is one of as great 

 importance as the one up which the educator toils, and that 

 the range of vision is as broad from the one as from the other. 

 Scientists of the schools recognize scientists of the soil. I can 

 can also see a most delightful condition growing with the years 

 among the people who have to do with the soil who recognize 

 the great value of the scientific development so delightful in the 

 schools and the desirability of utilizing these attainments in 

 connection with their own practice. Thus is respect engen- 

 dered by the people in different callings for each other and the 

 growing appreciation of the truth that there is no aristocracy in 

 knowledge. 



