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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I send a plan of our bed, as it proved pleasiii<:^ in design and very convenient 

 to work with, as any part of it could be reached without injury. 



IScale eight feet to the inch.] 



Tlie first dry weather after the bed was finished the sowing began. This 

 was given into the charge of tlie committee on "seeds and weeds." It was 

 evident, however, on account of the nearness of tlie summer vacation, that 

 we would have no floivcrs of our labor before September. Accordingly, a 

 collection was taken and, with the resulting several dollars, verbenas, pelar- 

 goniums, heliotropes, pansies, ragged robins, phlox, and several other varieties, 

 making about three hundred in all, were secured from a green-house, and our 

 garden was in bloom forthwith. It was admired until the close of school, and 

 was the one beautiful spot on our grounds. 



When wo returned in September, tiianks to our kind-hearted janitor and 

 the wet season, we found our bed covered with bloom. The seeds had grown, 

 and the Ferry plants were in bloom witli the rest. 



There were balsams, nasturtiums, petunias, poppies, mignonette, mist on 

 the mountain, allyssum, asters, pinks, and four-o' clocks. 



