226 TRANSACTIONS OF THE HORTICULTURAL 



REPORT ON PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS. 



Mr. Minkler. chairman of Committee on President's Address, 

 reported : 



We would call your prayerful attention to the subject of forest- 

 ry therein contained, that subject which not only interests us but our 

 posterity. What can we do that will be effectual i]i this matter? 

 Tt is a subject of great moment. There were some resolutions passed 

 at our last meeting, which need that some action be taken at this 

 meeting (we refer to the resolution of Volume XVI, page 285), and 

 we recommend that we appropriate the fifty dollars that is awarded 

 to this Society to that purpose, or as much as is needed for the same. 



S. G. Minkler, 

 Geo. J. Kellogg, 



Committee. 



DISCUSSION CONTINUED. 



Mr. Scofield — When I heard Dr. Humphrey read his essay it 

 occurred to me that it needed not a word to convince all here of the 

 necessity of timber culture, so little now practised or brought to ac- 

 tion in the cultivation of our farms and State. The founders of our 

 horticultural societies devoted a part of their discussions to forestry, 

 and it continued to increase until the meeting of the Society at 

 Elgin, and that meeting seemed to teem with forestry. From that 

 meeting it went out through the papers to the whole country. Dr. 

 Humphrey's paper has put the cap on this whole work^ and every 

 occupant of our schools, and every farmer of this country, ought to 

 be familiar with this subject of forest-tree culture. One hundred 

 men a year have assembled in these conventions for nearly thirty 

 years, and have put into practice forest-tree culture. Should we to- 

 day, in face of all these facts, leave this subject? Shall we not, as 

 lovers of our country, as horticulturists, place this literature in the 

 hands of every boy, and every girl, and farmer in the land? I ask 

 the question which will be answered by men on this floor. It lies 

 with you, gentlemen, whether we put this matter before the people, 

 or let our volumes lie on musty shelves. I suggest that it be put in 

 the form of a school-book, as being the most effectual way to place 

 it before the people. It will require time, money, and labor to ac- 

 complish this end. 



