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and corabination upon pablic. parks, cemeteries, and the like, but 

 the effect is always heightened when the trees upon a street or 

 avenue, are all of a kind, and as nearly as may be, all of a size. 

 This rule would equally apply to country roads ; but from a diver- 

 sity of soil and conditions, it might not always be best, and we are 

 left to the guidance of the rule that applies everywhere, viz : — to 

 2)Iant the kinds that thrive best. 



Very truly yours, 



FRANKLIN B. HOUGH. 



RESOLUTION ON PREMIUMS. 



G. W. Puller offered the following resolution : 



Resolved, That in offering premiums for fruits no premiums be 

 offered for any named varieties not recommended by this Society 

 for cultivation in this state. 



The Secretary. That resolution, if adopted in its present form, 

 would destroy our exhibitions. We are raising a great many va- 

 rieties of fruit in this state; many of them are promising, but are 

 kept on the experimental list, and we are recommending only such 

 as have been generally tried for a long term of years. Our prem- 

 ium lists, as at present made up, encourage growers to exhibit these 

 •experimental sorts, by giving premiums to such as are attractive 

 and promising. We are not paying any more premiums than are 

 necessary to bring out a fair display of what our people are doing 

 in fruit raising. 



I know that sometimes we have paid premiums on varieties not 

 generally thought hardy in all parts of the state, but not on any 

 but what are profitably grown in some parts of it, unless in cases 

 where there were some special good reasons for it, or by inadver- 

 tence. There are a good many things to be considered in getting 

 out a premium list and an exhibit of fruits, which are overlooked 

 in such a resolution as this. [ will mention a few. Last year we 

 had no winter fruit in the state to show, that amounted to any- 

 thing. Just across the state line, fairly in our fruit belt, in the 

 orchard of A. J. Phillips of West Salem, Wisconsin, I ascertained 

 that there was a lot of very handsome winter apples, of varieties 



