Even this far-away part of our territory has grown in wealth and intelligence to the degree that impels it to take so great an interest in horticulture as to start a horticultural society. Mr. Arthur Boyle is President, and Mr. James K. Livingston, Secretary. The quarterly meeting was recently held at Santa Fe, and was well attended by the leading ladies and gentlemen of the city. It has members in nearly every county in the Territory. The midsummer meeting will be held on July 2d.

In his address at the last meeting the President explained that horticulture was only in a very limited sense a branch of agriculture - and in no greater a sense than that agriculture is, once in a while, a branch of horticulture. The mission of horticulture is one wholly distinct from that of agriculture. While the field-culture of fruits and vegetables, as a matter of profit and industrial development, would engage a large share of the oversight of the New Mexican Horticultural Society, the society, he said, did not intend to forget that horticulture was the art which beautified the land, and especially the land which surrounds our homes. It was not the agriculturist, he thought, but rather the horticulturist, that could fervently sing with the poetess:

"God might have made the earth bring forth Enough for great and small; The sturdy oak and cedar-tree Without a flower at all.

He might have made enough, enough

For every want of ours - For medicine, toil and luxury,

And yet have made no flowers.

Our outward life requires them not, Then wherefore had they birth? -

To minister delight to man, To beautify the earth.

To comfort man. to whisper hope,

Whene'er his faith is dim; For whoso careth for the flowers.

Will care much more for Him".