TWENTIETH-CENTURY HORTICULTURE IN THE UNITED STATES. 



institutions have developed well-defined principles and modes of action, 

 and it only remains now to interpret the principles into popular language 

 and carry them to the people to whom they can be of greatest use. The 

 work of the experiment stations is by no means complete, for there are 

 as many unsettled problems as those which have been settled. The great 

 fundamental truths, however, are pretty well understood and are sus- 

 ceptible of being put to economic use. The work which is being done by 

 the agricultural and horticultural Press of the United States is perhaps 

 even greater than the work of the educational institutions. The results 

 which are now being achieved by the popular Press by bringing the results 

 of experiments to the practical cultivator would not be possible except for 

 the work already done by our schools and experiment stations. The 

 agricultural schools reach less than one person in five hundred connected 

 with rural pursuits, and experiment-station publications reach, perhaps, a 

 somewhat greater proportion ; but the rural Press, regular in its publication 

 and bearing testimony to the practical results of the work of the experiment 

 stations, becomes, as it were, the great organ for demonstration work of 

 a practical nature. 



