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We are not taking up this work with the hope that it 

 will make horticulturists of us. You do not expect to be 

 a physician or a nurse because you prepare your physi- 

 ology lesson daily. Our studies, if wisely selected, teach 

 us how to live. In order to know how to live so that we 

 can do the most good to the greatest number we must be 

 in touch with the animal and plant life about us. So 

 whether or not we ever expect to live on a farm or grow 

 fruits and vegetables, it will be well to know something 

 of that industry which is furnishing a means of livelihood 

 to an increasing number of our fellowmen each year. 

 Then, too, there is something of still greater importance 

 than food-supplying and money-making in horticultural 

 work, and this is too often forgotten. Who can measure 

 the ofood we receive from an interest in the thino^s of na- 

 ture, from outdoor exercise, and companionship with trees 

 and flowers? Do you remember that Longfellow said in 

 one of his beautiful poems : — 



''Go out under the open sky 

 And list to Nature's teaching!" 



We will greatly increase our happiness and our store 

 of health and wisdom if we follow this advice. 



If you have read the quotation on the first page of 

 this leaflet, you may rightly guess that horticulture a 

 hundred years ago, had not become the great life work of 

 thousands of busy people. People in those days grew 

 what fruit they wanted, or went without it. Apples were 

 practically the only fruit that could be found in the mar- 

 ket, and these probably only found their way there be- 

 cause the farmer s trees had produced more than he cared 

 to make into cider. How interesting it would be to trace 

 the history of the growth of horticulture considered merely 



