22.0 Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



flower culture, newspaper columns devoted to the theme, the florist 

 catalogues which come to us so freely, will become sources of in- 

 formation. Some seed of a flower hitherto unknown to us will 

 bring a degree of excited watching for the Moom, positively amus- 

 irjg to a disinterested looker on. Let these things win for them- 

 selves a place in the home, and they will gradually weed out the 

 trashy reading which is doing so much to educate for the reform 

 school and the penitentiary, and make our girls silly, discontented 

 and idle, instead of the noble, disinterested, useful women which 

 our homes and our country need. 



May each one of us, giving influence and interest according to 

 our opportunities, be enabled to do something towards bringing 

 into every home the sweet lessons and enjoyment of flower life. 



For He who made the violet, and every floweret fair, 

 Thinks not unworthy His great power to give His holy care; 

 Protect the life from year to year which blooms and blossoms there. 



Mr. Field said he had been very much interested in the papers 

 just read by the ladies, and wished they could be heard by a 

 much larger number of our farmers, for he was confident they 

 would be benefited by them. He very much regretted that we 

 had so small an attendance of ladies at our meetings, except at 

 the session set apart for their papers. At our meetings below, 

 the number present was very small, from one to five at the most, 

 and often none at all. Cm we not, in some way, induce them to- 

 come? The Grange is the only organization where the ladies are 

 in the habit of attending regularly. They may not be excluded 

 from others, but they do not seem inclined to attend. Every 

 Grange in the state should be represented at these meetings by 

 delega'es of husbands and the:r wives. Other industrial organi- 

 zations make special efforts, and are at a good deal of expense to- 

 secure a representation of their local societies, at conventions held 

 to advance the interests of their special business, and there is no 

 reason why farmers and all who are engaged in tilling the soil 

 should not meet in the same way, and consult for their own inter- 

 ests. The Agricultural Societies and Granges should see that 

 this was done, even if they had to pay the expenses of the 

 delegates. 



