4l8 MINNESOTA STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



highways and treeless plains in rural districts, towns and villages, are 

 coming into their inheritance of beauty and beneficence through the 

 grateful shade and presence in their midst of oak and linden, larch 

 and chestnut, palm and pine, as numerous instances in the state 

 reports testify. Not always have the clubs taken the initiative, but 

 all are actively cooperating, and in many cases they are the origina- 

 tors of forestry movements. 



The work of the Thursday Club of St. Paul deserves especial 

 mention. The club last spring obtained the consent of the board 

 of education to make an appeal, through the teachers of the public 

 schools, to the children to purchase and plant fruit trees on Arbor 

 Day, which the club agreed to furnish at small cost. The park com- 

 mission cooperated and allowed each child who desired to plant his 

 trees in one of the city parks to do so and tag it with his name. The 

 result was the purchase and planting of 14,000 fruit trees by the 

 children. 



In the San Diego district of California, out of twenty-six clubs 

 nine have tkken up the study of forestry. There have been tree- 

 plantings, and the San Diego clubs have raised $5,000 to improve 

 their 1,400 acre park. Beaufort, S. C, reports twenty-five miles 

 of clear hard-shell road, generously provided with young shade 

 trees, and a Delaware club has planted an avenue of trees one mile 

 long, reaching from one town to another. The Massachusetts clubs 

 are giving valuable assistance in fighting the brown tail and gipsy 

 moth. The women of Salem have aroused public interest, and the 

 children have gathered and burned 375,000 moth nests, and adjacent 

 towns are following Salem's example. Salem's latter day burnings 

 are to be commended. 



Brothers, take courage ! we'll help you build your monuments 

 along our broad highways. 



I regret that shortness of time prevents a worthy discussion of 

 "forestry as related to the farm." Since the phrasing of the subject 

 is such a happy conceit, I should like to trace the kinship closely 

 between forestry and the farm, or the home, for "farm" is but a 

 synonym for "home", and home must be something more than a 

 treeless acreage and a sun scorched shelter, if sons and daughters 

 are to remain contentedly beneath the rooftree. 



We recall a drive on our treeless border from Barnesville to Fer- 

 gus Falls, and as we passed some of those sun-baked, dust-blown, 

 wind-swept, shelterless abodes of desolation, with plowed ground 

 reaching to the very doorsteps, we could but exclaim : "I should 

 go raving mad if obliged to live here." The following day we were 

 taken .through the asylum at Fergus Falls, and we asked : "Where 



