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H. M. Dunlap — I think it should be a school day, aud that the 

 teachers should be required to assist, and instruct the children in the 

 art of tree planting. I would ask the committees from the other divi- 

 sions of the State if the second Monday of April would not do for 

 all? 



C. N. Dennis — Last year, the second Monday of April, we dug 

 into ice; it was too early for tree planting. 



H. M. Dunlap — We cannot guard against all the variations of 

 our climate. This time may suit, this year. I therefore move that 

 this Society recommends to the Governor of Illinois the second Mon- 

 day in April as a suitable day for Arbor day, and that the Secretary 

 be instructed to inform his Excellency of our action. 



Motion carried. 



F. C. Johnson, Kiswaukee, offered the following 



KESOLUTION. 



Resolved, That this Society request the State Board of Eailroads and 

 Warehouse Commissioners to change the classification of cider apples, 

 placing them in Class D. 



Adopted. 



By request of the officers and members of the Northern Society, 

 President Riehl announced that that Society had concluded not to 

 hold its regular January meeting, but will hold a summer meeting, 

 probably in the month of August. 



Adjourned. 



WEDNESDAY EVENING. 



Music. 



After calling the house to order the President announced the 

 report of the Committee on 



HORTICULTURAL ADORNMENT OF HOME, 

 BY MKS. R. D. HARRISON, PRINCETON. 



The word horticultural is a very ponderous word. It used to 

 be way over in the back part of my spelling book, along with re- 

 frangibility, heterogeneous aud predestinarian. In the days when I 

 watered its pages with my tears, horticultural always suggested a 



