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be interosted in it, we are confident that the results will justify any attention you 

 may give it. 



Yours trulv. 



c. w.'gakfield. 



Secretary State Horticultural Society. 

 [Copy of circular.] 



A WORD TO TEACHERS FROM THE STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The efforts of the State Horticultural Society to call attention to the importance 

 of making our country school-houses and scliool yards more attractive, have led to 

 the following generous proposition from the extensive and reliable seed iiouse of D. 

 M. Ferry & Co., who offer, as an aid in this work, to send free of all expense to the 

 children oi ihQ first five school districts in each county of the State, whose teacher 

 shall fill out andsend them the accompanying application and certificate, a collection 

 of 25 varieties of flower seeds, selected with leferenoe to their adaptability and 

 value for culture in school yards, and accompanied by especially prepared directions 

 for their culture and management. The otticers of the soci'ity are aware that they 

 are met at the outset with the diflicnlty that many of our school-houses iiave no 

 school yards, and are unenclosed; but is tliere not some one in such districts who will 

 provide a temporary enclosure that their childi-en may enjoy the benefits of this 

 offer? We urge upon every lover of the beautiful, every parent, every well wisher 

 of our State, to do all in their power to secure sucli result, believing, as we do, that 

 it will tend to develop an appi-eciation and love of the beautiful, wliich will have a 

 lasting influence for good on our children, and through them on the future of our 

 State. 



Blank applications containing the conditions on which the seeds are sent, may be 

 had at the oflice of this paper. 



T. T. LYOjS^, Pres. C. W. GAEFIELD, Sec. 



Tlie following is the blank used for application referred to in above circular: 



D. 31. Ferry & Co.: 

 Please send us one of j^our school collections of flower seeds, which we agree shall 



be publicly presented to the scholars of school district No township of. 



inyoiir name, and we will see that they are planted within the school yard of said 

 •district, in accoidance with the directions accompanying theui, and as fir as possible 

 by the children themselves. Ami we further agiee that on or before JSTovember 1st, 

 lS81,wewill report to the Secretary of tlie State Horticultural Societj^ at Grand 

 Eapids, the result of the experiment, together with any suggestions we may be able 

 to offer as to how to make our school yards more beautiful. 



Teacher. 

 P. O. Address, 



County. 



I certify that has been employed as teacher for the spring 



or summer term of 18S1, in school district No township of , and that 



■we believe that will endeavor to carry out the above agreement. 



Director. 



The following list comprises the teachers that availed themselves of the 

 offer : 



Charles S. Hampton, Little Traverse, Emmet county. 

 S. F. Kennedv, Lakeview, Montcalm county. 

 Eva D. (ioryell. Grand Kapids, box 407. 

 Lydia S. Davis, Flint, Genesee count3\ 

 W. A. Fallas, Cedar ttiiring*, Kent county. 

 B. G. Shoemaker, Keed City, Osceola county. 

 Oscar II. (^arus, Evart, Osceola county. 

 Miss J. Baker, Pontiac, Oakland county. 



