The Effect of Horticulture on the Horticulturist. Mr. President, It is sometimes profitable to look beyond the processes of the arts we pursue and gain if possible a glimpse of their moral and material results on ourselves and the world. It is a fact not often considered but at any rate past all question that man is moulded in body and soul both by the food he eats and the pursuit he follows. Feed him for un- limited generations under arctic skies exclusive- ly with the fat of the seal and the walrus and he is inevitably a savage with all the higher instincts merged and last in the low- er. Or let his energies, physical and men- tal be expended, while centuries pass, in hunting and fishing and war, so expended
