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slionld be enjoyed \Tlierever it falls. School grounds should be ornamented 

 Aviih trees, varied and grouped so as to give the desired shelter and display all 

 their natural beauty, but the pupils should not be fenced off; when enlivened 

 by ineiry, boisterous children, these grounds are most beaudful. Fort street, 

 Detioit, is a beautiful avenue, and widely celebrated as such, but Woodward 

 avenue below the campus is, wiien thronged with people, scarcely less beautiful. 



In laying out grounds, no one, I aiiprehend, will adopt the cut and litho- 

 graphed i)lans of the piofessional landscape artist, unless he is helpless as an 

 unfortunate in a ward, for the inclination always is to inject some little orig- 

 inality into the work, which, even if it is rougli, may have some charm of 

 beauty about it. 



Mr. Stowell: One of the pleasant things I note in visiting New England ia 

 the progress making there, in forest planting; places that were bare in my 

 boyhood are covered now with trees, and the appearances that always go along 

 with the forest are beginning to show themselves in these young plantations of 

 trees. The wild flowers and plants, and the birds of the forest are now com- 

 ing into localities that had been stripped of every vestige of forest growth 

 when 1 was a boy, and since planted to forest trees. 



Mr. Pierson commented upon the effects of trees in the streets of Flint. 



Mr. Gott advocated the planting of nut-bearing trees along the higliways, 

 in the fence corners, and in groves about the homes. People will take more 

 interest in tree-planting when it can be made clear to them that the dollar i& 

 on that side of tlie tree question. We are fast nearing a point in our State 

 history when it can be shown plainly that the money is in planting trees rather 

 than cutting them down. 



Prof. Baur: In Germany, forests are protected by law; forestry is an art 

 that is piacticed upon the best principles of science, and foresters are selected 

 from men of great cultnre. They are graduates of the universities. 



Mr. llealy : I take a great interest in ornamental tree planting. There i& 

 a great deal of pleasure connected with bringing about the farm, trees of 

 widely different types, and arranging them fur best effects. 



Next in order in the scheme of tropics was 



LANDSCAPE GARDENING FOR SMALL PLACES. 



The following letter was read from Mr. R. Ilaigh, chairman of the standing 

 committee on landscape gardening: 



Genllcmen of the Slate Horticultural Society : 



I am sorry not to bo with you, but if I could be present, might say some- 

 thing like tlie following upon one topic of your convention : 



Tlie art of landscai)e gardening is steadily growing in public favor and 

 receives more attention and consideration from year to year, but is stil! far 

 behind nearly all other arts and professions. Tliere is still a feeling that on 

 small places especially, there is no opportunity for the use of its [)iiiici[tles. 

 In the laying out of parks, cemeteries, and laiblic grounds, it is generally 

 admitted that the tkill and knowledge of the artist are needed, but in the 

 suKill gruunds It wont pay. Anybody can fix them. The same idea prevails 

 to some extent in architecture, but happily that is passing off nioie rapidly. 

 Pcnjjlcj are bi-ginning to see that it pays pecuniarily as well as [)lcasurably to 

 Biciire the skill and taste of the architect. Wherever this has been acted 

 upun, a Very marked improvement is seen in the style of buildings and with 



