National and Educational Interests. 



127 



ing, itself, is a fine art, and is not, therefore, strictly speaking, 

 a part of horticulture \ but it requires an intimate knowledge 

 of horticulture for its best prosecution, in the same way that 

 architecture demands a knowledge of carpentry and kindred 

 arts. Yet the ultimate principles of landscape-gardening are 

 distinct from those of cultivation and propagation of plants 

 and all the mere technicalities of making a sod and of plant- 

 ing; and it is by no means inconceivable that a man maypos- hortfcui- pe " 

 sess taste and tact sufficient to lay out grounds, and yet have ture - 

 very little horticultural knowledge. And the term landscape- 

 horticulture is further of special importance in emphasizing 

 the fact that landscape-gardening is more than the mere em- 

 bellishment of a bit of ground, or the clever arrangement or 

 training of plants. Objection has been raised to the term 

 upon the ground that the ideal landscape-gardener should be 

 also a horticulturist, and that no hard and fast lines can be 

 drawn between landscape-gardening and horticulture ;* but 

 although these statements are incontrovertible, it is still true 

 that while much that is called landscape-gardening is horti- 

 culture, there is also much of it which is not, and the term 

 landscape-horticulture rests, therefore, upon a real distinction. 

 But it should be said that it is not the office of the term to force 

 any division in the practice of landscape-gardening, but sim- 

 ply to record a distinction which it is often useful to recognize. 



Horticulture, then, may be defined as the art and science 

 of the cultivation of garden plants ; and the garden is under- Definition 

 stood to be that part of an estate which is devoted to fruits, £^ orticul " 

 vegetables and ornamental plants, in distinction to those 

 areas used for cereals or general field crops, forage-plants, 

 the care of domestic animals, and forestry. The following 

 outline, while by no means complete, will indicate the scope 

 of horticulture as understood in America : 



GROUP I. POMOLOGY, or the art and science of growing fruit. 



I. Viticulture. 

 II. Orchard culture. 



A. Pomaceous Fruits. 

 Apple. 

 Pear. 

 Quince. 



*Garden and Forest, i 51. 



