STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 89 



The "spirit of unrest," so characteristic of the American people, is 

 very ably treated. While it is true that through this spirit of unrest 

 our people have reached their present plane of progress, it cannot be 

 doubted that more encouragement should be directed to a love of home, 

 and homestead improvements. That spirit of unreast should be properly 

 directed, and not discouraged. 



Home ornamentation, so ably discussed, should be assisted by the 

 practical teaching of botany in our common schools, by devoting a 

 portion of the school house grounds to the cultivation of ornamental 

 trees, shrubs and flowers — thus bending the infant twigs in the proper 

 direction; and the effects will appear in more tasteful and congenial 

 homes. 



Your committee would recommend the appointment of a committee 

 of three, of which the Hon. J. W. Robison shall be chairman, to present 

 to the General Assembly the pressing need of the Society for funds, and 

 the public good that may arise froin the same, to the end that an appro- 

 priation may be secured at an early day. 



Your committee would further recommend, that the Treasurer be 

 allowed a compensation of one per cent, on all moneys passing through 

 his hands; and that the Executive Committee be required to take a good 

 and sufficient bond from said Treasurer, of double the amount that may 

 be expected to pass through his hands; and require all funds to be safely 

 deposited in the name of the Society. 



In reference to the meeting of the American Pomological Society, to 

 be held at Baltimore next September, your committee would recommend 

 that it be left with the Executive Committee to appoint one or more del- 

 egates to represent this Society at said meeting. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



TYLER McWHORTER,") 



B. G. .ARNOLD, \ Committee. 



C. N. DENNIS, 3 

 Adjourned. 



WEDNESDAY EVENING. 



THE DISCUSSION 



On Prof. Worthen's Report was brief, and related chiefly to the 

 importance of natural science in a curriculum of study. It is a vice in 

 our educational system that it does not make prominent the things that 

 concern us most to know. Education that gives applause is preferred to 

 that which aids the arts of life. The ornamental predominates over the 

 useful. The minds of children are dressed as we dress their bodies — in 

 the prevailing fashion. A boy is drilled in Latin and Greek, not for any 

 useful purpose — not that he may read the great authors in the original 

 (he can't read his diploma on commencement day) — but that he may 



