1909. 
243 
THE RURAL NEW-YORKER 
Our Friends, the Hybridists. 
In this day of specialists when people 
who devote themselves to one subject 
know so much about it, and when no 
one can hope to know more than one 
subject really well, all that the majority 
of us can do is to enjoy the friendship 
or at least the labors of those who take 
time to be experts upon the subjects we 
are interested in. It is something to be 
able to say, “No, I am not wise on the 
subject myself, but I have a friend, or I 
know a book, where we can learn all 
about it.” This is co-operation of intel¬ 
lect, and we shall never arrive at the best 
there is for us in any line till we learn 
to co-operate. 
Now these generalizations came to me 
because I was wondering how many of 
the women and young people in our 
R. N.-Y. household were in the habit of 
reading the page headed Ruralisms. 
Alost of us country dwellers love flow¬ 
ers, we take a great satisfaction tending 
our small posy beds, our windowfuls of 
potted plants, or even a single rubber 
plant or Boston fern if that is all we can 
find time for. We are an observing peo¬ 
ple too, and in our drives to the city 
and across country we have time and 
opportunity to know a good deal about 
what success other flower lovers have, 
and what new things prove adapted to 
our locality. We can learn all this while 
our eyes are not otherwise employed, 
and if we will read the weekly reports 
of Dr. Van Fleet we can also store our 
minds with an astonishing amount of 
data concerning the latest and best plant 
lore in the country. We shall learn, too, 
much of interest in the way of plant his¬ 
tory and of what is being done and what 
has been done in countries across the 
sea. All this is culture, culture of mind 
as simon pure as any the schools offer. 
You must be often in the city to be 
thoroughly up-to-date, but drop out of it 
for a season and you are flat as a burst 
balloon. Get yourself well posted upon 
any subject of perennial vitality and your 
store will never grow out of date but 
will remain a nucleus to add to, as well 
as a treasury into which others will be 
glad to dip now and then. 
Moreover no one can read of the 
patient persistence of the enthusiastic 
breeder of plants without getting a 
lesson in tenacious devotion to one’s 
calling. To read of the work spent upon 
even one class of plants is to gain a 
lively interest in the novelties each sea¬ 
son sees offered, and also to be reminded 
of the great advance in diversity and the 
notable improvements in our garden 
favorites, which a look 10 or 20 years 
back brings to mind. There have been 
some disappointments, but none trace¬ 
able to the hands which cross-fertilized, 
garnered, replanted and selected. If you 
have read in Ruralisms what has been 
done in the interest of lily culture alone 
you have some faint notion of the un¬ 
rewarded labor each new variety of plant 
represents. 
On page 958 of The R. N.-Y. is men¬ 
tion of Luther Burbank and his spine¬ 
less cactus, with a brief reminder of the 
work of other originators who have 
passed their days in unrecognized pov¬ 
erty. Now these things ought not to be. 
But who of us expects justice and grati¬ 
tude from mankind in the aggregate? 
Individually we may have some brain 
and the disposition to use it but, so far 
in its long upward climb, humanity is no 
farther advanced than those children of 
Hamelin at the heels of the Pied Piper. 
Pipe us a catching air and we all fol¬ 
low. Even in our little field of church 
or home or Grange work how many 
times have we seen the praise heaped 
upon shoulders which have borne but a 
slight share of the day’s burden? It is 
good for us to be reminded now and 
then of the work of the unrecognized, 
lest we, too, add voice to the thoughtless 
chorus in which each one cries "Rah! 
Rah!” because his neighbor does. Of 
course it is right to want to do good 
work to help on the world, and right to 
enjoy the legitimate fruit of one’s labors, 
but how much it would be worth to us 
to have our names in future encyclo¬ 
pedias is a question. The world is full 
of good and faithful souls doing their 
work with small chance of overmuch re¬ 
ward. If the finger of notoriety chances 
to single one out let us each do our 
little best to leave him his peace and 
working serenity while we seek to level 
up the inequalities of fate by recognition 
of the unrewarded efforts going on all 
about us. But we farmer people are 
practical if anything, and those who 
plant gardens, lawns or field crops will 
need no admonishing that they learn all 
they can of the seeds they plant and the 
stock they select. Never has the gar¬ 
dener and farmer had greater need of 
the friend who can tell him just what 
may be fairly expected from the novel¬ 
ties and improved strains which the cata¬ 
logues offer. Though we all have our 
favorite sorts in vegetables and grain 
seeds, still who knows but better varie¬ 
ties may have come upon the market? 
The testing of new things is at least 
interesting and may prove profitable. 
But above all we need the advice of one 
who speaks from actual experience and 
who is in a way to tell us of the past 
and to anticipate what may reasonably 
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