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they can make their homes and small yards things 

 of beauty, it is his duty to do so." 



W. M. R. French, director of the Art Insti- 

 tute, was the next speaker. Said he : "It maj' 

 be roundly asserted that the beauty of a small 

 town is wholly dependent upon its trees. Watch 

 yourself as you declare this or that village to be a 

 beautiful place, and you will find that you mean 

 simply that it has many and fine trees. Its beauty 

 may be oromoted by wide and orderly streets 

 and by neat and tasteful buildings, and especially 

 by care of trees and grass, but if the trees are 

 really fine, it can scarcely be kept from being 

 beautiful. With regard to the relation of trees 

 and buildings or other artificial structures the 

 pnnciples are precisely those of pictorial composi- 

 tion. The effect of large, fine trees in the 

 neighborhood of a building is so great as to need 

 no enforcement. Visiting New Orleans, I was 

 struck with the dignified, scholastic air of New- 

 comb College, the women's department of 

 Tulane University, built upon an old estate where 

 the walks are arched with great Live Oaks, as 

 compared with the main buildings of the 

 university upon new ground where the trees are 

 yet to grow. I wonder that house builders do 



not more often make sure of good trees. I have 

 myself bought a tree with some land about it and 

 built my home under it. " 



The entire afternoon of Wednesday was taken 

 up with a trip through the West Park system, 

 where the delegates were the guests of the West 

 Park Board. Several stops were made in the 

 parks, and places of interest pointed out to the 

 visitors. 



The business of the convention was all trans- 

 acted at the morning session on Thursday. The 

 officers whose terms expired at this time were 

 re-elected for the coming year, except President 

 C. M. Loring. who declined a renomination on 

 account of ill health. Mr. L. E. Holden, of 

 Cleveland, Ohio, one of the first and strongest 

 friends of the movement, was unanimously 

 elected president. Messrs. J. C. Olmstead, of 

 Brookline, Mass, and Mr. E. J. Parker, of Quincy, 

 111., were elected vice-presidents ; Mr. Warren 

 H. Manning, Boston, secretary', and Mr. O. C. 

 Simonds. of Chicago, treasurer. The next meet- 

 ing will be held in Milwaukee in June, 1901. A 

 number of steps were taken looking to a wider 

 field of work and to extending the interest in the 

 movement in different parts of the country. 



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Spraying Calendar, issued by Messrs. Stone & 

 Wellington, Toronto Free on application. 



Canada's Great Eastern Exhibition, i6th 

 Annual Fair, September 3rd to 8th, Sherbrooke, 

 Que. M. M. Tomlinson, Secretary. 



Experimental Farm Reports for 1899. Dr. 

 Wm. Saunders, Director, Ottawa. An excellent 

 report of over 400 pages, full of valuable informa- 

 tion for the farmer and the fruit grower. 



Ginseng Culture. Information about this 

 great Chinese root, with cultural directions by 

 Harlan P. Kelsey, Tremont Building, Boston, 

 Mass. This is a well written pamphlet, which 

 we commend to all persons interested in the 

 culture of this plant. 



Cyclopedia of American Horticulture, com- 

 prising suggestions for cultivation of horticultural 

 plants, descriptions of the species of fruits, vege- 

 tables, flowers and ornamental plants sold in the 

 United States and Canada, together with geo- 

 graphical and biographical sketches by L. H. 

 Bailey, Professor of Horticulture in Cornell 

 University, illustrated with over 2,000 original 



engraving^, in four volumes, at $5.00 each. New 

 York: The McMillan Pub. Co., 1900. Vol. i. 



The second volume of this excellent work has 

 just come to hand, and certainly it continues to 

 make the same impression for excellence of 

 matter and execution which the first volume 

 made upon us. Every department of horticul- 

 ture, including floriculture, pomology, commer- 

 cial nursery propagation, the botany of horti- 

 culture, is not only fully written up but also 

 beautifully illustrated. 



One of the important features of the work is its 

 application to our country. That grand work by 

 Nicolson is for Englishmen, and quite misleads 

 one with regards to dates of planting, adaptation, 

 hardiness, etc., but on all these points Prof. Bailey 

 has taken care to enter into the minutest neces- 

 sary detail. We do not hesitate to commend this 

 work to all our readers, whether fruit growers, 

 gardeners, gentlemen of leisure, or of whatever 

 profession, for it contains such information as it 

 would take scores of books to g^ive, herein 

 gathered together in one fine production, and 

 which cannot fail to both interest and instruct 

 every reader. 



