8TATB HORTIOULTURAL SOCIETY. 1T3 



Very few people, however, ever think of such an object in planting. 

 They buy flowering shrubs with which they are acquainted or which 

 have been recommended to them, and plant them vvherever they think 

 each individual will show to the best advantage, and without a 

 thought of the possible effects which might be secured by the tasteful 

 use of groups and masses. The true art lies in economizing the sources 

 of pleasant interest so as to make the most of each, and the value of 

 shrubbery as a means of securing that object in the most natural and 

 graceful manner is apparently little appreciated. 



The landscape gardener is rarely able to direcj; in person the execu- 

 tion of his plans, and the result as carried out by others, whose igno- 

 rance or conceit often leads to the introduction of their own ideas, is 

 generally widely different from his original conception. 



The chief hope of improvement lies in the action of such associa- 

 tions as the State Horticultural Society in disseminating information 

 and encouraging the taste for rural pursuits, the love of nature and the 

 tasteful development of the resources with which we are so richly en- 

 dowed. The presence of such an assembly as I have the honor to 

 address this evening affords the best guarantee of increasing interest 

 in the subject, and I beg leave in conclusion to thank you for the kind 

 attention you have given me. 



At the conclusion of the reading of the paper, on motion of Mr. 

 Harris, Mr. Cleveland was given a* vote of thanks, and made an hon- 

 orary life member of the Society. 



President Elliot stated that Mr. Cleveland was one of the first 

 members to join the American Pomological Society, having attended 

 its first meeting. 



Prof. Folwell, of the State University, was then introduced and 

 delivered a very interesting and able address. 



THE DISPOSAL OF CITY CLEANINGS. 



By William W. Folwell, LL. D., Professor of Political Science in the 

 University of Minnesota. 



Civilized man is the only animal which willingly lives in its own 

 filth, while claiming to be the only animal intelligent enough to 

 know the consequences. 



The brutes are generally cleanly; and human savages, being wan- 

 derers, have the advantage over civilized man that they can easily 

 run away from habitats which have become unendurable. 



