September M, 1907 



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FOR HORTICULTURAL EDUCA- 

 TION IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. 



The following is a copy of the pre- 

 amble and bill making horticultural 

 erlucation in the public schools man- 

 datory upon State Boards of Education 

 as proposed by the S. A. F. committee 

 and reported by the chairman, Mr. E. 

 V. Hallock, at the Philadelphia Con- 

 vention: — 



The movement to establish school 

 gardens has already been put in force 

 successfully and according to original 

 ideas. In every case the school gar- 

 den has proved more beneficial even 

 than was expected, opening a new and 

 attractive and useful field of study to 

 the pupils, giving them healthful ex- 

 ercise, and providing them with man- 

 ual training in connection with men- 

 tal work, which is said to increase the 

 efficiency of mental effort as much as 

 thirty per cent. 



Its advantages are almost too appar- 

 ent to repeat — uplifting in morals, ."ind 

 changing as if by magic the exuber- 

 ance of youth from mischievousness 

 into interesting and useful channels. 

 It has proved to have almost eradi- 

 cated the spirit of lawlessness and 

 destructiveness, or changed it into a 

 sense of possession and a desire to re- 

 spect the rights of others as the pos- 

 sessor would have his own rights re- 

 spected. 



The material benefit derived from 

 gardening can be made to change the 

 entire mode of living of a family, 

 making possible the saving of large 

 sums of money otherwise expended for 

 fresh meat and canned goods, and be- 

 ing at once a stop-gap of outgo, and 

 providing a healthful diet, which is 

 little appreciated when never tried. 

 Millions of dollars in each state could 

 he saved to the laboring man — and the 

 man of means also — by a surprisingly 

 small effort, if properly directed. 



In this era of trusts and the raising 

 of prices, the garden Is the poor man's 

 answer. Thousands of acres of land 

 that lie fallow in every state of the 

 I'nion. producing nothing, worth noth- 

 ing, could be changed in one short 

 year to produce millions of dollars, all 

 going toward the betterment of the 

 poor, or comparatively poor, man. We 

 have the land, and the sunshine too, 

 and the intelligence of man — all these 

 are free and can be turned into incal- 

 culable value with slight direction cf 

 the controlling power of the state. 



If the youth of the country can be 

 made to see the broad benefits derived 

 from horticulture, and the interest, 

 desire and love for this work be im- 

 planted in their hearts, usefulness will 

 take the place of vandalism, and inter- 

 esting exercise the place of pernicious 

 activity. 



As every native-born child and all 

 foreign-born children up to a certain 

 age pass through the portals of our 

 schoolhouses, it stands to reason that 

 here is the place to teach them what 

 will be of so much use and importance 

 in their life-long welfare. 



We lielieve that the teaching of hor- 

 ticulture, and the rousing of interest 

 in the pupils' minds as to its possibili- 

 ties, has a strong bearing upon the 

 welfare and contentment of the peo- 

 ple, and will tend to allay the present 

 spirit of unrest which seems to per- 

 vade all ranks. 



Therefore we submit the following 

 as a bill to be introduced into the Leg- 

 islature of the State of 



Resolved. That the teaching of hor- 

 ticulture by simple practical methods 

 in the public schools of the State of 



become a law of the State; 



and that the Society of American Flo- 

 rists be empowered to put this law 

 into operation, with as little disturb- 

 ance as possible of the present course 

 of study, and with the aid of the most 

 experienced people in this line who 

 will be in close connection with the 

 heads of Agricultural Schools and 

 Colleges and Experiment Stations 

 throughout the country. 



Resolved, also: That this law be 

 put in force the second year after the 

 passing of this bill. 



Signed: 



E. V. HALLOCK, Chairman. 

 BEN.J. HAMMOND. 

 ALEX. WALLACE. 



F. E. PALMER. 

 J. F. COWELL. 



OBITUARY. 



Peter La Pointer a florist, sixty 

 yeais old, of Eureka, Cal., died sud- 

 denly on August 27 at Los Angeles. 



Pominick McDavitt. a landscape gar- 

 dener of nanvers, Mass., was killed 

 while alighting from a train, after 

 liidding goodbye to some departing 

 friends at the railroad station in Sa- 

 lem, on Sunday evening last. He was 

 about vo years of age, and a member 

 of Post 90. G. A. R. 



Charles Callice, florist, of Far Rock- 

 away, N. Y., died at St. Joseph's 

 Hospital on September 3 after suffer- 

 ing a short time from diabetes gan- 

 giene, at the a,ge of seventy years. 

 The funeral was held on Thursday 

 and the interment took place in the 

 I AW rence Cemetery. 



Wm. O'Hara, a prominent and highly 

 respected florist and gardener of Hunt- 

 ington, N. Y.. died on September 6, 

 after a three days' illness with 

 l)leuro-pneuraonia, aged 59 years. Mr. 

 O'Hara was born in Ballyvary, Ireland. 

 In early life he worked at gardening 

 at Lancastershire. England. In 1S70 

 he came to this country and settled 

 in Kostoti. Fall River was his home 

 for a time, hut he soon went to New 

 York City. For four years he was fore- 

 man tor the late Henry G. Scudder, at 

 East Nee!-'. He wa« on the estate of 

 the late Dr. H. A. Belt, at Livingston 

 Manor, N. Y. .About lcS7S he went to 

 Huntington and in ISSS established the 

 florist Inisiness which he conducted at 

 time of his death. He is survived by 

 a wife, who was Miss Julia Whalen, 

 to whom lie '.vas married in 1878. 



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