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haps grown quite near your home. The most beautiful, 

 if not the most interesting divisions of this great field of 

 horticulture are floriculture and landscape horticulture. 

 By floriculture is meant flower growing, either for the 

 home or for the purpose of supplying city markets with 

 potted plants and cut flowers, which are in great demand 

 in all large cities, especially during the winter. Land, 

 scape horticulture is the growing of ornamental trees, 

 shrubs, and other plants for the purpose of adding beauty 

 to city and country home grounds and to public parks, 

 etc. Landscape gardening, which is often considered a 

 part of horticulture, is really one of those arts which we 

 term fine arts, such as painting, sculpturing, etc. It is 

 the arranging of plants and other objects of beauty in 

 any outdoor space in such a way that the result may be a 

 pleasing picture. 



Now in all this growing of fruit, flowers, and vege- 

 tables, do you not think we can find something to inter- 

 est and instruct us? There ought to be a great deal. 

 We have studied physiology in order to understand 

 the development of the human body— our physical make- 

 up. We have studied botany and know quite a little 

 about plants and their parts and habits. We need to 

 know something of zoology too, if we are to adjust our- 

 selves properly to the world about us. But between plant 

 life and human life there is a connecting link which we 

 miss if we study only botany and physiology. In study- 

 ing botany we learn the various parts of the wild flowers 

 and where they may be found and who their relatives are. 

 Why not add to this something still more important, a 

 knowledge of the proper growth and care of those fruits 

 and vegetables upon which we are largely dependent for 

 our healthy development? 



