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While Ortly, from New Jersey's limbs, 

 Has twenty-seven synonyms, 

 Tl)e " Blue Hen" also makes us hush, 

 And holds aloft her "Maiden's Blush," 

 Whose name is most appropriate, 

 And worth — we cannot overrate — 

 Which in its season "leads the van;" 

 Go try and heat it, if you can. 



Our apple is a staple now. 



Like meat and grain, for foreign trade, 

 And should you ask, I'll tell you how 

 Its value thus to us was made. 



And how, you ask, has thi5 been done, — 



Such benefits to all who live — 

 Such glorious results— how won? 



The answer, here, to-day we give: 

 Progression is the word which tells, — 



The secret of the good we know: 

 For earnest thought and action swells 



The list of blessings here below. 



Afternoon Session. 



President Lyon in opening the afternoon session called attention to the 

 meeting of the American Pomological Society early in September and read 

 the following enactment of the legislature providing an appropriation for the 

 expense of an exhibit of Michigan horticultural products at that meeting : 



Joint resolution to provide for the exhibition of the horticultural and pomological 

 productions of this State at the exhibition of the American Pomological Society, to 

 be held in Boston in 1881. 



Besolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, That the 

 Governor be and he is hereby empowered to provide for the collection and display 

 of specimens of the horticultural and pomological productions of this State at the 

 exhibition of the American Pomological Society to be held in the city of Boston 

 during the autumn of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-one: and that the sum 

 of one thousand dollars be and is hereby appropriated from the general fund for such 

 purpose, to be expended under the direction of the Governor. 



Mr. Lyon said a commission * would soon be appointed to take in charge the 

 exhibit, and he hoped all interested in Michigan horticulture would lend a 

 helping hand. 



The Secretary announced that the annual fair would be held with the State 

 Agricultural Society in Jackson, September 19, 20, 21, 22, and 23, and asked 

 that there be a great exhibit of our fruits there. 



The first topic for discussion in the afternoon was 



STEPS TOWAED THE OKNAMENTATION OF SCHOOL GROUNDS. 



Mr. W. W. Tracy was called out, and in a brief, pithy address spoke of the 

 attention that people gave unwittingly to beautiful things. He said one-half 

 the labor in the world is expended to please the eye. Wherever we go, in 

 ■whatever place we may be we see the results of attempts to render something 

 more comely and beautiful. But a very large measure of this labor and an 

 immense amount of money are squandered in fruitless attempts at embellish- 



*The commission named by the Governor were T. T. Lyon, South Haven; J. G. RamsdeU, Trav- 

 erse City; W. J. Beal, Lansing; W. K. Gibson, Jackson; E. H. Scott, Ann Arbor. 



