The Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1885-1886, 1886-07-30
POPULAR SCIENCE.
THE RICH RESULTS OBTAINED IN
HORTICULTURE AND GARDENING.


The Relation of Science TO SOciety-In
the Newspapers and School Books-De-
vsrted Glory of the Three Traditional
b. Effect on Morals.
| believe the application of science to
common life has, however, been in no di-
rection SO complete and so admirable, as
in horticulture and gardening. Life is rem
derod wonderfully rich of late in the way
OF productions of art of this sort, new
fruits, vegetables, trees, flowers Most of
those |ho plant or enjoy these things do
not reailo that they are not the products
of nature at all, but are absolute creations
of man.
On tho lawn before my window stands,
first, Governor Wo,l cherry tree, one of
the wonderful propu1Js of the skill of DIR.
Kirkland 10 the right spreads away a
vineyard, where that delicious grape, the
Delaware, attests the creative science of
its originator, George W. Camp5ell of
Delaware, Ohio; there are besides the
Lady grape, from the same wise hands, the
Ricketts, seedlings, the Rogers hyhrids,
and others that bear the honored names of
| their creators From the little town of
Dunveith, in Indiana, get these golden
and crimson catalpas, and many more eX-
quisite affairs, caused to exist by the sci
entiilc skill and enthusiasm of Il. Y. Teas
Are there any more glorious names in our
annals than those OF A. J. and Charles
Downing, Patrick Barry, Col Wilder, to
whom We owe so many OF our choice Der
ries, apples, pears aud other fruits, but still
| more the wisdom to grow them in every
poor mans yard DO you know why nearly
| all the grapes and berries you eat, and the
roses you en- 10Y, bear the name OF some
| person! 1t is, for the most part, because
| the originator wishes to immortali2e him
| self by giving the world a new and pleasant
thing
| SCIENCE AND SOCIETY.
But the relation of science to society is
most important in the way of establishing
social science, the science of health, of bet
ter government, of purcr morals, of higher
manhood, Involving manners and gentle
| bearing; in the way of reform of prisons,
of charities, of refornatories for the young.
| The contents OF The journal of Social
| Science run from the public charities, to in
ternational codes, from health laws, to pub
| lie parks; from municipal government, to
| improved methods of voting; from public
vaccination, to laws that govern suicide;
| from savings banks, to industrial co opera
| ton; from the case OF vicious children, to
| extradition OF criminals. from recreatlons
| for the people, to the management of ineb-
| rates, from professional ethics, to the
| American civil service, from race problems,
| to disfranchisement for crime, from the
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