366 STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



SCHOOL-GROUND PRIZES. 



Charles E. Brown, of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, kindly sends the secretary 

 the following list of prizes which he and an associate have united in offering 

 to the schools in their own country. The idea is worthy of imitation : 



No. 1. Prizes of $25, $15, and ^10 will be given to the three public free 

 school grounds in the county, of not less than half an acre in area, best 

 protected by evergreen hedges. 



3. $20, 810, and $5 for the best three dozen named apples (not duplicates), 

 grown in any public free school grounds of the county. Trees planted since 

 1870. Apple trees from Filling's nursery, planted in Joseph Burrell'sgrounds 

 last May, bore fruit last season ; many of them will bear dozens of apples this 

 year. 



3. $25, $15 and $10 will be given at the next annual exhibition of the 

 County Agricultural Society for best three bouquets, composed solely of flowers 

 grown as above. No school to receive more than one prize, but may compete 

 for all. Vick's Floral Guide for 1875 supplied gratis to any school in the 

 county on application to C. E. Brown. 



4. $5, $3, and $2 for the best three quarts of named strawberries grown as 

 above this season — duplicates not allowable. Notice of competition to be sent 

 to C. E. Brown in June, and strawberries to be brought to L. E. Baker's 

 office on the fourth Saturday in July. One of our largest growers asserts that 

 his besu crop was/roj;« plants set the same spring. 



5. $20, $15, and $10 to tlie three schools or grounds provided with the best 

 gymnastic appliances within two years. 



6. $10, $3, and $2 to the three pupils of whom the most meritorious act 

 towards a school fellow or a teacher may be recorded in 1875. 



7. $25, $15, and $10 for the three best essays on above series of prizes, by 

 any teacher of the county. 



Prizes in Nos. 1 and 2 open for five years, if not awarded before. In 1, 3, 3, 

 and 5 notice of competition to be sent to the inspector of schools in August ; 

 entries to be made for, and prizes will be awarded at the following annual 

 county exhibition. In G and 7 awards will be made by the undersigned at the 



close of the year. 



Chakles E. Brown, 

 LoRAisr E. Baker. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



HORTICULTURAL SOCIETIES,— THEIR VALUE. 



President Ohmer of the Montgomery (Ohio) county horticultural society, in 

 the course of some remarks at the mid-summer meeting, said : 



It is said of Americans, and there is more truth than poetry in it, that we 

 devote all our time and best energies to money making. No time to enjoy 

 ourselves in a social way, that is so necessary to make this life a happy one. 



