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B)ore thau five minutes' duration, given by members of the society and distin- 

 ^»»}slied guests who were present, interspersed by choice selected renderings by 

 tbe singers. The programme was carried out in the happiest manner, and. 

 sjr^arently to the highest enjoyment of the audience. Secretary Garfield, who 

 is well known to be one of those ever-ready and highly favored mortals who is 

 always equal to the emergency, and has always just the right thing to say in 

 lie right time and place, was the very life and soul of the meeting, and a very 

 l^Tge contributor to its grand success. Altogether these interesting sessions of 

 ihe State Horticultural Society's meeting in Flint are long to be remembered 

 and something that we shall look back to with recollections of pleasure, on 

 account of their friendly associations and their instructive discussions. 



THE LESSOXS 



"We feel to have learned and may safely carry away are : 



"1st. How to get the popular interest and cooperation at horticultural meet- 

 yogs? By constant effort in educating and elevating the people; by soliciting 

 "i^eir attention and cooperation in a work in which they are so much interested; 

 "by making them feel that by promoting the general good they are at the same 

 ^ioie securing their highest individual good, and by offering them benefits and 

 giving them something they can carry away with them. 



"2nd. Uow to get out a large and fine fruit display ? By requesting contri- 

 lintions of each and all the fruits in their season, and by offering premiums and 

 distinctions to those who make an effort to increase the interest of the meeting. 

 -Displays of fruits at a meeting like this are closely inspected, and are the very 

 best means of educating the people who inspect them. 



"3rd. How to maintain the interest and attendance to the end? By having a 

 "laried and well digested programme of popular and interesting subjects to 

 offer; by getting out the fullest and freest discussions upon them in an 

 interesting and friendly way, and by having something instructive and new 

 every day." 



THE NURSERY. 



PLANT THE BEST SEEDS. 



Col. Marshall P. "Wilder, upon being asked to give ten lines of his best 

 thoughts for a live newspaper, took the following text from one of his own 

 addresses: "Plant the most perfect and mature seed of our very best fruits, 

 and as the means of more rai)id progress, cross-fertilize our finest kinds ior still 

 .greater excellence," and furnished the following lines: 



Pliint the best seeds of every o^ood fruit, 

 Good fruits to rai>se, all lauds to suit, 

 Fruits whicli siiall live, tlieir blossins^s to slied 

 On millions of souls when we siiall be dead. 



