There can be no doubt but much of the failures in making fruit growing profitable, as well as in making profitable the various departments of the farm and garden, arises from the indifference to excellence so many exhibit. At the recent meeting of the Western New York State Horticultural Society, Mr. Barry reviewed the nursery business. Let the struggle be as to who will grow the best, not the cheapest. Above all, let nurserymen do all in their power to free the profession from these foul excrescences, the fraudulent, irresponsible agents, peddlers, or whatever names they may be known by. The cultivation of exotic plants, flowers and plants for house and lawn decoration is not improving as it should, considering the increase of wealth and taste among our people. The cheapening process has been carried on to such an extent that it is almost impossible to get well-grown, vigorous plants. In regard to the sending of plants through the mails the speaker said : " On the whole I am inclined to think that the sending of puny little plants a few days or weeks old, with scarcely the breath of life in them, through the mail bags does more harm than good." It is not the mail plants only that are poor and unsatisfactory, but the tendency is to fill the markets with a class of plants so poor as to be dear at any price.