344 MISSOURI STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



This sum will provide a small compensation to the Director, pay current 

 petty expenses, and furnish each year standard instruments to a few tried 

 observers, as the quality of their work may show that they are ready to 

 render suitable service. 



ECONOMIC AND ORNAMENTAL TREE PLANTING. 



A PAPER BY PROF. M. G. KERN, ST. LOUIS, MO. 



President Missouri State Horticultural Society : 



It has often been my privilege to converse with officers and mem- 

 bers of your society, on the horticultural issues of the future, presentin^^ 

 themselves as important factors in the rapid development of our great 

 state. We are all agreed upon one point, at least, that the time of pop- 

 ular apprenticeship is past, and that the scope of vision, by which to 

 judge correctly the requirements of coming generations, must be quite 

 liberally enlarged in order to keep abreast with the progress made by 

 states surrounding us on all sides. 



THE ORNAMENTATION OF SCHOOL GROUNDS. 



An important step in progressive horticulture has already been 

 taken by the Society in advocating and encouraging a higher grade of 

 culture in the school grounds of our state, by which the rural taste of 

 the rising generation will materially be improved and elevated to a high- 

 er appreciation of the truly beautiful, with which artistic horticulture 

 can surround the homesteads of a refined people. May this agitation be 

 kept up at a lively rate, to prove anew the assertion that just revolutions 

 never ero backwards nor fail in the end. Remind the learned educators 

 of our state, respectfully, of course, but earnestly, nevertheless, of a 

 duty they owe to a people determined to be progressive forever. 



