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the muscles and brains of the teeming population flowing thither 

 so rapidly, and destined to accumulate here in millions. 



Question by the secretary if teaching especially adapted to 

 horticulturists was taught in the college. Thinks that the whole 

 agricultural training tends to help the horticulturists. 



Prof. Tracy says that the young men are not confined to book 

 knowledge, but they receive many lectures and are then required to 

 put it into practice. Instructions are given in all sorts of horticul- 

 tural work and they are taught to apply them. All their class 

 instruction they are compelled to put into practice in the orchard, 

 nursery or the greenhouses. Planting, budding, grafting, pruning, 

 potting, &c., &c. 



KEPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ORNAMENTAL TREES. 



BY MAJ. Z. S. RAGAN. 



Beautifying home, giving character to our places, beautiful 

 lawns and beds is as much man's duty as to grow corn or apples. 

 Recommends planting parks in all our cities. A square now and 

 then should be reserved for a park. Notes one error in planting 

 and that is in planting too thickly, especially too many shrubs. 

 One well cared for is worth a dozen crowded together and gives 

 better satisfaction. 



Laying out a lawn or grounds we want to take into considera- 

 tion the growth of the tree and put the right tree in the right 

 place, otherwise it becomes an object of disgust. 



Thinks the State University is the proper place to educate the 

 young men in landscape gardening. 



Put large trees in the back yard or at one side where it will not 

 interfere with the view from the house. Plant evergreens in clumps 

 but not too closely. It requires care and study to plant a place 

 well. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON NOMENCLATURE. 



Your committee on nomenclature have noted with pleasure 

 the action of the American Pomological Society in September last, 

 and of the Mississippi Valley Horticultural Society in January last, 

 looking to the shortening and simplifying of the names of the fruits. 



