THE SCIENTIFIC EDUCATION OF GARDENERS. ICD 



When the active duties of life are over, the gardeuer has a rich 

 fund of enjoyment and constant companionship in the plants he 

 loves. 



I would sa}' in conclusion that financial success in life is within 

 the reach of every gardener who will truly and nobly seek it. 

 There is room and opportunity for all. There is abundance of 

 work for those who are anxious to find it. Our country is broad 

 and rich and made richer ever}- day by those who are willing to 

 work. A small business can be started with but little capital 

 other than energy, industry, and intelligence, united with sound 

 morality, that will rapidly elevate a man to a comfortable and 

 honorable position. The lower walks of horticulture may be full 

 to overflowing, but in the language of your great statesman, 

 "There is plant}' of room up here." In this country, where men 

 are measured by their worth, and not by the accident of birth, 

 distinction only comes to those who work for it, and there are no 

 men more likely to reach it, than well-informed, honest, and 

 industrious gardeners. 



Discrssiox. 



F. L. Temple asked what ought to be done to stimulate the 

 production of new varieties of hardy trees and shrubs. He 

 thought the efforts to improve our stock of plants have been for a 

 long time directed to bench or bedding plants almost exclusively, 

 and he felt that there is need of a cTiange to things of greater 

 permanence, which are far more valuable than any other class of 

 plants. 



Mr. Allen said that through this country young people are 

 mostly uneducated in regard to plants, and until they are properly 

 instructed in this direction, knowledge and taste in relation to 

 these things cannot become general. Today the followers of 

 fashion in New York would as soon wear a caulifloAver as a 

 Cattleya, if it were only fashionable. A man came to him once 

 with a large order for forced ox-eye daisies, and willingly paid 

 seventy-five dollars per day for three weeks, during which time the 

 suppl}" was furnished. It was merely caprice which made the 

 flowers valuable. As soon as the people become educated to see 

 something beautiful in plants besides color, trees and shrubs will 

 be better appreciated. In the old countries, they cultivate old 

 flowers because they love them. Plants that were pictured in 



