■4-10 State Horticultural Society. 



OUT-DOOR ART. 



Prof. W. J. Beal, Lansing, Mich., read a paper upon "Out-door Art 

 in School and College Grounds," and advised the use of trees and shrub- 

 bery to embellish the grounds, but laid particular stress upon collections 

 of weeds, grasses, and the native trees and shrubs. The "wild garden" 

 at the Michigan Agricultural College contains most of the plants found 

 in that section, and is useful and attractive both to students and visitors. 

 The authorities of the Michigan State University and the two J^ormal 

 schools have been so pleased with the idea that they have established 

 similar gardens and it is expected, as their students go out into the state 

 as teachers in the public schools, that, here and there, similar, but of 

 course, smaller gardens will be started- in the grounds of the district 

 schools. 



Prof. W. W. Tracy, of Detroit, had for his topic "Interesting Chil- 

 dren in our Highways and Public Grounds." He believes that tlie love 

 of beauty is inborn and that it is a crime not to give it a chance to de- 

 velop. Many children gather armfuls of flowers but it is more often from 

 a commercial spirit as they hope to sell them, than for a love of the 

 flowers themselves. Much can be done by giving children a bit of land in 

 which to grow such plants as they wish, and if they can be induced to 

 aid in beautifying some waste place, they can hardly fail to take an 

 interest in the work. 



Mr. Olmsted confirmed the last statement by relating the experience 

 in Cambridge, Mass., where there are school gardens in many of the 

 grounds, and the teachers have interested the pupils in the triangles and 

 squares in the vicinity, and they are not only careful themselves to avoid 

 injuring the lawn and shrubbery, but they warn others from doing so.— 

 Am. Park, and Out-door Art Ass'n, American Gardening. 



ORNAMENTAL STOCK. 



There have been added lately to the literature relating to trees and 

 plants for ornamental purposes several important works. One of these 

 is the annual report of the Tree Planting and Poimtain Society of Brook- 



