Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . ELD, BENJ. G. SMITH,Camobidge, Mass. Absolute honesty ofobservation by thosewho are performing ag-ricultural experimentsis the prime requisite,but my experience isthat it is so ch»ice acommodity,that a goodmany who are engagedin such work use verylittle of it, and it is sur-prising to see howsmoothly things willwork without employ-ing it; and freely, how muchtrouble it begets, I mean to say thatthe man who wTites ex-periments up at hLs desk heis an ea-sier time ofit than
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . ELD, BENJ. G. SMITH,Camobidge, Mass. Absolute honesty ofobservation by thosewho are performing ag-ricultural experimentsis the prime requisite,but my experience isthat it is so ch»ice acommodity,that a goodmany who are engagedin such work use verylittle of it, and it is sur-prising to see howsmoothly things willwork without employ-ing it; and freely, how muchtrouble it begets, I mean to say thatthe man who wTites ex-periments up at hLs desk heis an ea-sier time ofit than one who waits for facts that develop inthe garden, orchard and on the farm. It is so hard to be honest when we wantthings to come out a certain way. I have evencaught myself wTiting an indication down fora fact, and rubbed it out, finding that a littlemore waiting dissolved the promise. I havecaught myself favoring the conditions of avariety that, it seemed to me, ought to comeout ahead. It was not willful dishonesty Ithink, but a huit of natural depravity, at leastI can account for it in no other ^.^.^ We often hear men talking about how cer-tain ministers of the Gospel have left an impressupon communities, the importance of whichcould not be computed by any known method,and the wide-reaching influence of which therewas no means of measuring. There is no doubtabout it at all, but I wish to suggest that thesame expressions ought to apply to the nursery-man of any community, if he is built on theright plan. No man can grow trees, shrubs,vines and other plants for a people, if he studiestheir uses and illustrates their usefulness, butcan be a power for inestimable good, not oijyin his own coimnunity. but wherever his pro-ducts and his catalogues are sent. If he entersupon the occupation of a nurser\^nau in theright spirit, the spirit that we expect to exist inour pastors, I incline to think his moral workwould approximate that of his clerical brother. MARSHALL P. WILDER: R
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