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Every pupil who receives plants will be expected to write on a postal 

 card, during the first week iu October, 1892, the number of plants that 

 have lived through the season, and the number of young plants that 

 have grown from the same, and to direct and mail such postal card to the 

 corresponding secretary of this society, as named above. Neglect to 

 make this report will render any recipient of plants ineligible in future 

 plant distributions of this society. 



A YOUNG people's HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



In any school in which ten or more pupils, who are eligible to receive 

 plants under the conditions named above, shall apply for the same, it is 

 recommended that such pupils form themselves into a young people's 

 horticultural society, to be governed by the following constitution, pro- 

 vided that the teacher of the school or some other person at least eighteen 

 years of age, who understands the elements of parliamentary usage, will 

 volunteer to act as presiding officer at the meetings of such society. 



CONSTITUTION FOR YOUNG PEOPLE'S HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



(1). This organization shall be known as the (name to be chosen by 

 members) Horticultural Society. ^p::^ 



(2). Its officers shall consist of a president, who shall preside at all 

 meetings; a secretary, who shall record the minutes of the meetings and 

 conduct the correspondence of the society, and a treasurer, who shall hold 

 the funds of the society subject to the written order of the president. 

 These officers shall be elected by ballot at the spring meeting of the 

 society, and shall continue in office until their successors are ekcted. 



(3). Pupils eligible to receive plants under (he conditions specified in 

 this circular, who have applied for the same, and who have paid the re- 

 quired fee, shall be charter members of this society. Such charter mem- 

 bers may elect other persons over twelve years of age to membership by a 

 two-thirds vote. Such elected person shall pay to the secretary a mem- 

 bership fee of five cents. 



(4). A majority of the members shall be necessary to constitute a 

 quorum for the transaction of business. 



(5). Not less than two meetings shall be held by this society during 

 each year: one, to be called the spring meeting, shall be held on Arbor 

 Day; the other, to be called the fall meeting, on the first Tuesday of 

 October. At each of these meetings at least two papers shall be presented 

 on some horticultural subject; the papers and subjects to be assigned by 

 the president. Other meetings may be held at the call of the president. 



At both the spring and fall meetings, the secretary of this society must 

 send a report to the corresponding secretary of the Wisconsin Horticult- 

 ural Society of the number of members, the number of meetings held' 

 since the last report, the numbers and titles of the papers presented; and 

 at the fall meeting, a report must be sent of the condition of all plants 

 furnished by the state society, as prescribed elsewhere in this circular. 



The newspapers of the state are earnestly requested to co-operate with 

 us by calling ihe attention of school district officers, and their readers, to 

 the subject matter of this circular, to the end that Arbor Day may be 

 properly observed throughout our state. 



M. A. Thayer, President, 



Sparta. 

 B. S. HoxiE, Secretary, 



Evansville. 

 This circular was distributed to every school district throughout the 

 state by our state superintendent of schools in connection with Arbor 

 Day circulars, and the interest taken by both teachers and pupils has ex- 

 ceeded our most sanguine expectations. 



The following report shows results of the Arbor Day observance and 

 plant distribution: 

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