156 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



RESOLUTIONS. 



The Michigan State Horticultural society, in annual session at the village 

 of Lowell, near the close of 1894, desires to place on record its appreciation 

 of the many courtesies extended to its membership by the local society and 

 friends of horticulture during a very interesting and successful meeting. 

 Everything has been done for us that genuine hospitality could suggest 

 for our comfort and happiness; and the interest manifested in the object 

 of our society is assurance that our local branch at this place will be a 

 strong ally in the accomplishment of the purposes of our organization. 



Upon matters referred to our committee, we recommend the adoption of 

 the following: 



Resolved, That the Michigan Horticultural society is in sympathy with any move- 

 ment among commission men which looks toward a better understanding between grower 

 and dealer, and which has for its object the well-being and the well-doing of both classes, 

 recognizing that sterling honesty on the part of either class should be the basis of any 

 method or arrangement. 



Resolved, That this society favors the utilization of lands in our state, not adapted to 

 the purposes of successful agriculture, for the growing of timber, and earnestly com- 

 mend to the farmers the planting of the less fertile or waste portions of their farms to 

 forest trees; and, in recognition of the general effects for the state of increased planta- 

 tions of timber, we urge upon our legislature a careful consideration of the problems 

 connected with reforestation and the preservation of a proper portion of our land area 

 in timber, and the enactment of practical legislation that shall stimulate our people to 

 act as well as talk in this matter. 



Resolved, That we earnestly and aggressively commend the bill now pending in con- 

 gress, which provides for the protection of our natural preserves through the aid of the 

 military department of government, and we urge the prompt passage of the bill, as 

 delays are dangerous when thieves are actually at work despoiling these valuable 

 properties. 



Resolved, That we are cordially in favor of giving state aid freely to the dissemination 

 of valuable information to the people through farmers' institutes, and we are not 

 unmindful that Michigan might well recognize, by small annual appropriations, the 

 work of our own society, inasmuch as it requires of us for publication an annual report, 

 which for years has been made a power for good in developing our horticultural resources 

 and advertising our special adaptability to the growth of a very wide range of horticultural 

 products. 



Resolved, That a legislative committee should be named at once, of which the presi- 

 dent of the society shall be chairman, and that such committee are hereby authorized 

 and instructed to use all honorable means to secure legislative recognition of the valued 

 work of this society in the development of our resources, by giving to it annual financial 

 aid.j 



Resolved, That the movement instituted some years ago by this society, and warmly 

 seconded by D. M. Ferry &, Co., looking toward a more general dissemination of practi- 

 cal information in the cultivation of flowers by awakening interest in the embelishment 

 of the rural school grounds, has been productive of much good and is worthy of a still 

 more persistent and extended effort, and we urge the officers of the society to again 

 take up the matter and, if possible, secure once more the aid of D. M. Ferry & Co., in 

 awakening an interest in embelishment of school premises by teachers and children, 

 and the utilizing of this object lesson in giving simple lessons in horticulture of value 

 to every home in the land. 



Chas. W. Garfield, 



D. W. Wiley, 



R. M. Kellogg. 



