Addresses—Recreation in horticulture. 425 
curiosity. Like explorers in Artie seas, or in African wilds, he 
added to the boundaries of human knowledge, but contributed 
little or nothing to the amelioration of the human condition. He 
is entitled to honor, but the world owes him far less than it owes 
the inventor of printing, or of the telegraph, or of the steam en¬ 
gine, or any one of scores of other labor saving and civilizing in¬ 
ventions or discoveries. 
I have thus hinted at some of the needs of agriculture and hor¬ 
ticulture—more intelligence, more taste, more brain work, more 
leisure, more profit, more of those things which constitute the at¬ 
tractions and the glory of cities, less of those things which consti¬ 
tute the repulsion and the shame of country life. 
Now, as one means not yet mentioned, of the solution of this 
problem of promoting agricultural and horticultural interests ; of 
giving to the country more of the culture, taste, comforts and at¬ 
tractions of city life; I would give to the city and the town more 
of the rural delights and the freedom and the health of the country. 
This brings me to the second division of my subject, and that 
which more appropriately comes under the title, “Recreation in 
Horticulture.” 
I would recommend to business and professional men a syste¬ 
matic employment of a portion of their means and their leisure in 
horticultural pursuits. In this there would be the noblest recrea¬ 
tion, refreshing both body and soul; and out of it might and would 
grow not only advantages to themselves, but benefits to horticul¬ 
ture as a science. Very many business and professional men 
dream of the delights of rural life after they shall have acquired a 
competence to justify the luxury. They think the dream can only 
be realized at some indefinite future period. 
I shall proceed to show a better and more rational way than 
this. Let business and professional men more generally seek sub¬ 
urban residences, with two, three, ten or more acres of ground. 
Of this, let as liberal a portion as possible or convenient be sa¬ 
credly devoted to the lawn and to ornamental trees. Let the 
truest principles of landscape and architectural designs govern the 
construction of both grounds and house. We are seeking the 
sources of recreation, of delight, mindful of the truth that a thing 
of beauty is a perpetual joy. There is no recreation more satisfy- 
