The ranch. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1902-1914, 1904-05-01

commonly. In6y are Ddu enough DIT
best and we like to kill every one pos
sible and thus reduce the subsequent
broods. If the birds emptied these
cocoons, then all is well. If, however,
they went to the ground and thus
escaped both birds and the work of
our hands, we must study some way
to make them contented with their
winter quarters so that We can kill
them.
How words grow away from their
original meanings! Our English word
horticulture comes from two Latin
words, hortus, meaning the garden,
and cultura, culture. Agriculture is
derived from ager, the field, and cul-
tura. One means garden culture and
the other field culture. But that dis
tinction does not obtain now. HOrti
culture now means the growing of
fruit whether in the garden or field
and does not, as ordinarily used, in
clude other things that are grown
in the garden. How did this change
come about? That is not the easiest
thing in the world to answer. 1t may
be said that formerly hundreds of
years agO-fruits were grown exclu-
sively in the garden. So at that time
it was simply a branch of horticul-
ture. But gradually it became the
most important part of the garden and
finally crowded out other things as
being properly horticulture. This is
not an uncommon occurrence. The
word "bib1e" simply means book,
or did mean that, but the Importance
attached to the one Book gave us the
Cny,t TIC of tho word iknWiCn
the word scriptures" meant simply
writings of any kind but at least a
part of the human family gave such a
high appreciation to what are called
the sacred writings that the word is
not now applicable to any other writ
ings but the bible whether it is writ
ten or printed The word "manu-
script" is another illustration of this
divergence of words from their Origi-
nal use. Literally manuscript means
writing done with the hand. But
call my copy for The Ranch manu-
script though it is not written at all
but is printed on my typewriter.
But how did the word horticulture"
come to be applied to the field Gull
ture of fruits? No one would call
hundred acre orchard garden spot.
While in such cases there is no garden
at all, only a field, yet there is
sense perhaps in which garden Gull
| ture is applicable in such cases. Gar
den culture means thorough culture.
| A gardener will bestow as much labor
on few acres as the grain grower
does on hundreds. Now when our
fruit growing gets out of the garden
into the field the same culture should
| be continued 1t may not always be
| that such is the case but it should
be. 1t is of doubtful proprfety to leave
off garden-culture methods when we
engage in fruit growing on large
scale. Everything must be done thor
oughly in our orchards if we expect
| to succeed.
The past winter has been a Sc
! we're one in the Atlantic coast states
| The result is that in some sections
| fruit trees are severely damaged
where they are not killed outright.
Peaches will be scarcer in all the
northern orchards as re suit of this
severe weather. The great peach belt
in Georgia seems not to have been
affected and from that section will
come good crop of this delicious
fruit. But peaches will be an entire
| failure in all New England There is