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"Here Nature in her unaffected dress, 

 Plaited with villies and embost with hiils, 

 Enchast with silver streams and fringed with woods, 

 Sits lovely." 



— Chamberlayne . 



' 'II est des sions plus donuse, un art plus enchanteur, 

 C'est peu de cliarmer I'oeil, faut parler au coeur. 

 Avez-vous done connu ces rapports invizibles, 

 Des crops inan nes etdes entrees sensibles? 

 Avez.vous entendu des canx, des pres, des bois, 

 La muette eloquencu et la secrete voix '? 

 Rendez-vous ces etlets " 



— Les Jardina, Book 1. 



It may be no visionary prophecy to say that such grounds as can 

 now be had at a mere nominal price, and improved at moderate cost, 

 will rank among the most celebrated parks or public grounds in 

 America. 



Both visitors and citizens who seek pleasure and health outside 

 the dust and smoke and din of the crowded city will be delighted by 

 the scenery and invigorated by the high, pure air and water, and return 

 praising the public park and the guardians of the city who founded, 

 and those who continue to foster it. 



Z. S. EAGAN. 



Independence, November 19, 188G. 



EEPORT BY CHAS. PATTEESON, KIEKSVILLE, MO. 



Mr. L. A. Goodman : 



Dear Sir — As I was prevented from attending your late meeting 

 at Lexington (except by proxy of my son), I thought of partly making 

 up the loss by attending the Illinois meeting at Jacksonville, the 14th 

 and 16th instant. I now regret not having made any notes of the pro- 

 ceedings for your report, and can only plead that they seemed so inter- 

 esting I surely never would forget them, and while this is true in gen- 



