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that the City Council of Galesburg be memorialized to provide by ordi- 

 nance for the creation of a Board of Park Commissioners, which should 

 have charge of the public parks of the city. Mr. Hale further recom- 

 mended the red maple, magnolia, acuminata and tripetala, also the tulip 

 tree. 



Dr. Humphrey said no man should be trusted to plant a park of 

 trees who was not skilled in ornamental gardening. We should plant for 

 fifty, yes, for one hundred years in the future, and none but men of ex- 

 perience and culture were fit to be intrusted with such work. Only 

 persons who have studied the art can tell what will be beautiful after a 

 growth of fifty years. 



President Standish said, "a thing of beauty is a joy forever,'' 

 and this was applicable to trees. In planting trees we should have the 

 rule of rhetoric in view, "unity, variety and harmony." Should we 

 plant all soft maples we should have unity, but no variety, and no more 

 should be planted in Galesburg. There are trees, of equally rapid growth, 

 that are much more beautiful. The elm, the Norway maple and the 

 varieties of magnolias are much more desirable. 



Mr. Hunt said he always praised the bridge that carried him safely 

 over. He could not speak of the soft maple as others do. Perhaps the 

 time has come when we can get other trees to take its place, but it has 

 done us much good in the past. Our park was planted about fifteen 

 years ago, and it was the best that could be done at that time. He did 

 not think the magnolia as desirable as the President did. They are not 

 considered so hardy, except the magnolia acuminata, and perhaps the 

 tripetala. 



Mr. Hale's motion was then passed unanimously, and he was author- 

 ized to lay the matter before the City Council. 



APRIL MEETING. 



Among the many things said at a meeting of the Society, held April 

 28th, at the residence of D.a.vid Sankorn, Esq., the following ideas were 

 advanced by Mr. A. N. Carpenter, in a paper which he had prepared, 

 and which he read at that time: 



First, Sap does not circulate in the tree, but remains equally dis- 

 tributed throughout, changing with the seasons from a watery condition 



