90 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



horticulturists who are able to write a hand-book or a guide to fruit 

 culture, how to propagate, plant, cultivate, etc., to be studied at school. 

 For an award of $50 for the best book, there would doubtless be sev- 

 eral competitors. A committee could be appointed to make the selec- 

 tion of one, or a part of all, and pay accordingly. This book could be 

 enlarged each year as deemed necessary. Educated tree and vine 

 planting adds more wealth and invites more visitors than any other 

 enterprise of our land. Every lover of tree, vine and flower should 

 agitate horticulture as a branch of study in our country schools. As 

 the stars and stripes teach love and loyalty to every true American, 

 horticultural teaching at school would yield influence of great value ; 

 it would increase the interest in tree planting, and be a source of 

 untold profit and pleasure to thousands of our land. No better monu- 

 ments to our memory than trees, vines and flowers can be erected. 



Legend of the Morning- Glory, 



'Tis a very wondrous story 

 Of how the morning-glory 



Grew to be a vine, 

 So exclusively adorning 

 The beauty of the morning, 



Heavenward to climb. 



When the earth from sleep was waking, 

 And every cloudlet breaking 



Into crimson dawn, 

 When brilliant colors fleeting, 

 Dissolved in warmest greeting 



To flowers just born : 



Suddenly a young plant tender 

 Felt the radiant splendor 



Of the sun's keen dart ; 

 And the bright, gay thing, delighted, 

 Found purest love ignited 



Deep within her heart. 



Ever up, and upward ever, 

 Tired of climbing never, 



Rushed the frenzied flower, 

 Into buds and blossoms breaking. 

 Herself so lovely making, 



Till the noonday hour. 



