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for them. D. M, Ferry & Co. of Detroit offered to supply the seeds providing 

 the teachers would agree to plant them with the help of the children, and in 

 the fall report the result to the secretary. The teacher was to apply to the 

 secretary or D. M. Ferry & Co. for seeds. The trial was made and it was a 

 grand success, as the fifty or more reports fully testify, sonic of wliich would 

 be found in the annual report of the society for 1881. Mr. Garfield gave a 

 number of instances and extracts from the reports, which were listened to very 

 attentively by the large audience. He said the same offer of seeds was open to 

 teacliers this year, and he hojied every one in the audience would go home and 

 stir up an interest in this matter. 



Mr. Steere recounted the difficulties he had overcome in getting a plantation 

 of evergreens in the school yard near his own premises. There seemed such 

 an apathy on tlie part of the people that he was well nigh discouraged. 



Mr. Pearsall urged upon parents the duty of following their children to 

 school and making the surroundings pleasant there in the same way they would 

 at home. A large part of the wakeful hours of children is spent in and about 

 the schoolroom. It is of the greatest importance tliat tlie surroundings here 

 be such as to exert a healthful iniluence. 



Mr. J. S. AV'oodward : A German prince was complimented at one time 

 on his excellent management of his kingdom, lie responded l)y placing his 

 hand on the head of his little boy and saying: "This little follow is ruler of 

 my realm." An explanation being asked, he replied, "Why, his mother rules 

 the prince and he rules his mother." This is a good deal so concerning this 

 school horticulture. If this society can only get hold of the children there 

 will be no trouble about the rest. The school-houses and yards will be fixed 

 up and tlie whole country will be rapidly educated in this matter. We have 

 unearthed an old law in our State that allowed certain funds to be used for 

 school library purposes. Now we propose if possible to have something done 

 by which this money shall be employed in fixing up school premises. Our 

 Western New York Society have set to work about it and we hope to do some- 

 thing. James Vick has made a liberal offer to people in our State who will 

 help embellish the school grounds, and I believe there is to be a "boom" in 

 this business. 



Dr. AVoodlaud Owen next read a short [)aper on 



HORTICULTURE IX THE HOME. 



A short paper was next read by the Secretary from the })ea of 11. T. Mc- 

 Naughton of Jackson on 



HORTICULTURE AS A PART OF INDUSTRIAL EDUCATION. 



In the education of to-day, as in most other things, the tendency of the 

 times seems to be toward a very jiractical result, and the demand is less and 

 less for that mental training which gives a familiarity alone witli higher math- 

 ematics and with the history of by-gone ages taught in the literature of a 

 departed race, and more and more for an education wiiicli teaches men the 

 principles which directly underlie their profession or calling. People, especially 

 in this country, require a scliooling that will be of practical and well defined 

 use to them in business. Hence tiie demand for industrial schools and col- 

 leges where are taught the art and practice of various professions. It is 

 coming to be a common thing for young men to seek to get an education at a 



