STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



And when, above this apple tree, 

 The winter stars are quivering bright, 

 And winds go howling through the night, 

 Girls, whose young eyes o'erflow with mirth. 

 Shall peel its fruit by cottage hearth. 



And guests in prouder homes shall see, 

 Heaped with the grapes of Cintra's vine 

 And golden orange of the line, 



The fruit of the apple tree. 



The fruitage of this apple tree, 

 Winds, and our flag of stripe and star. 

 Shall bear to coasts that lie afar, 

 Where men shall wonder at the view 

 And ask in what fair groves they grew; 



And sojourners beyond the sea 

 Shall think of childhood's careless day 

 And long, long hours of summer play, 



In the shade of the apple tree- 



oiscussrox. 



Secretary Gilbert of the Board of Agriculture assumed the chair, 

 and the papers were discussed. 



Sec. Gilbert. The excellent papers to which you have listened 

 this afternoon have fairly well covered the ground in the subject 

 under consideration ; yet, there is always room to clinch a good ar- 

 gument, and I presume that individuals here present would like to 

 discuss some of the suggestive points which have been presented by the 

 speakers of the afternoon on either subject, as the two are so closely 

 allied that they may be discussed in conjunction quite as well as dis- 

 tinctly. The matter of planting trees for ornament and shade is al- 

 ways a fruitful one. The subject of Arbor Day is new to us here 

 in our State, comparatively. Any further remarks as to the ways 

 and methods of observing it, of enforcing the idea of its observance 

 on the minds of our people would be very acceptable at this time 

 and we will wait for voluntary remarks from any one present. 



Mr. Atherton. Tliere are two points in this last paper that I do 

 not like to have passed by unnoticed. The first is Arbor Day itself. 

 In my judgment it is altogether too late. It was last year, I think, 

 the 10th of May. There is a school-house near by my place, and 

 the teacher wanted to interest the scholars in Arbor Day and wanted 

 them to set out some trees around the school-house, and the teacher 



