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absolutely necessary to grow in pots or tubs under glass. It would 
be well in my opinion for our young men, anxious as many of 
them are to keep abreast with the onward march of horticulture, 
to be actively in touch with the most approved methods of culti- 
vation adopted by experienced growers at home, as well as in the 
colonies. Thus they would learn how to increase and successfully 
grow valued plants, many, perhaps, of economic importance, from 
warmer or colder latitudes for test purposes or acclimatisation 
here. I would add, in conclusion, that intelligent application to 
the study of so useful and pleasing a profession as that of horti- 
culture would most surely merit and should insure success; and 
if, as is so truly necessary, forethought and observation be prac- 
tised, afterthought, with all its possible miseries, would be 
avoided. Our climate and soil, generally speaking, being favor- 
able for the cultivation of almost anything, the opportunities 
afforded by tuition in this and other institutions of the kind, also 
through our increasingly liberal land laws, should enable our 
young men to become not only owners of flourishing gardens, but 
horticulturists in the truest sense, and second to none in the world. 
