STATE HOKTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. ^3 



While a few individuals are permitted to view from mountain 

 top the finished landscape, clothed in all its possible wealth of mate- 

 rial products and aesthetic loveliness, putting forth their best efforts 

 for a realization of their ideal, is it not too true that the masses, for 

 want of proper education, rob themselves of happiness too pure and 

 exalted to be measured in value by sordid gold? 



A. H. Gaston — Arbor Day should be made one of our most 

 important holidays. Teach the children and encourage the older 

 people to plant trees. Plant them about the house, plant them by 

 the roadside, plant them in the school-yard, and they will remain 

 living monuments long after the hand that planted them has crum- 

 bled back to dust. I celebrated my sixtieth birthday by planting a 

 walnut, that will probably live long after I am forgotten. The 

 Legislature should make an appropriation for the special purpose of 

 planting and otherwise ornamenting school grounds. 



Mr. Patterson, of Missouri — In Missouri it has been found im- 

 practicable to celebrate the same day in all parts of the State. The 

 proper time for planting in the north is too late for the south. 



Dr. Edwards — I think the Governor will be obliged to this 

 Society if they will designate the proper date in each of the three dis- 

 tricts, Northern, Central and Southern, for this work. I expect to 

 issue a circular to county superintendents in the spring in relation 

 to this matter, and shall be glad to receive any suggestions this 

 Society may desire to make. 



Dr. Humphrey — The idea of the educational influence of plant- 

 ing and ornamenting the school-yard is important, but the economic 

 question of tree planting is equally so, and this Society should keep 

 it constantly before the people. I move that the designation of the 

 proper date for Arbor Day be referred to the Committees on Fruit 

 Lists for the three ht)rticultural divisions of the State. 



Motion adopted. 



