STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 4'd 



Near the house, we should plant sparingly of large trees. If 

 too closely planted they will give too much shade and make the house 

 damp. 



A few evergreens will give variety and beauty, and should not 

 be left out. Two or three flower beds will give more pleasure to the 

 tired mother and daughters, than almost anything else. There is 

 scarcely anything that is more easily grown than the hardy annuals, 

 for they do not require a great deal of attention and give the best 

 results. 1 will not attempt to say, how the inside of a farm house 

 should be arranged. That, I will leave for some one better posted 

 than myself. 



By all means let us have it arranged as conveniently as possible, 

 so as to save the mother and daughters as many unnecessary steps 

 as we can. 



It seems to me, that if the boys have an especial liking for any 

 one branch of farming, that it is the duty of the parents to give him 

 all the opportunities they can to improve himself in that line; by so 

 doing, the boys may be encouraged to stay on the farm and to have 

 a liking for it. 



We can not all reasonably expect to be very successful farmers, 

 but 1 am sure we can get a comfortable living from our farms much 

 more easily and satisfactorily, than we could if we invested the same 

 amount of money in business in some of the cities. 



Tu selecting your life work you should be very careful what you 

 choose, try to make up your mind to one thing, then settle down and 

 work away. If business is dull, do not get discouraged and try some- 

 thing else; but keep at your chosen pursuit, and sometime, probably, 

 fortune will favor you. 



The old adage is undoubtedly true, that " a rolling stone gathers 

 no moss." So let all see that they do not become "rolling stones" 

 in this world, trying first one thing, then another, and succeeding 

 with nothing. Such persons are a dead letter in the world, leaving 

 it no better than when they came into it. Let us make up our minds, 

 that we will succeed with whatever we attempt to do that is right; 

 so tha^t when we are passing away, we can feel that the world is Iset- 

 ter for our having lived and worked in it. 



THE PROPAGATION OF TREES AND PLANTS. 



BY C. E. DENNIS, HAMILTON. 



Your honorable committee, in assigning duties, gave me the sub- 

 ject of propagation of trees and plants, without assigning any special 

 feature thereof. They might have shortened it by saying horticul- 

 ture, for it really embraces the whole subject. And I assure you I 

 feel greatly at a loss in being called upon to take up a course of 

 thought that has been a puzzle to wise heads for more years than I 



