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was also announced. The address concluded with the following para- 

 graph, which will also form a most fitting close to this notice : — 



" Long may the members of this Society meet together as friends 

 and mutual helpers, dispensing and receiving good, and may your 

 efforts for promoting this most beautiful of all arts, this health-preserv- 

 ing and life-prolonging industi'y, be crowned with continued success. 

 May the Society go on conferring blessings on our country, until every 

 hearthstone and fireside shall be gladdened with the golden fruits of 

 summer and autu nn, until thanksgiving and the perfume of the or- 

 chard shall ascend together like incense from the altar of every family 

 in our broad land, and the wholeworld realize, as in the beginning, the 

 blissful fruition of dwelling in the ' Garden of the Lord.' And when at 

 last the chain of friendship, which has bound so many of us together in 

 labor and love, shall be broken ; when the last link shall be sundered, 

 and the fruits of this world shall delight us no more ; when the culture, 

 training, and sorrows of earth shall culminate in the purity, perfection, 

 and bliss of heaven, may we all sit down together at that feast of im- 

 mortal fruits, 



' Where life fills the wine-cup, and love makes it clear; 

 Where Gilead's balm in its freshness shall flow 

 O'er the wounds which the pruning-knife gave us below.' " 



FOREST TREE PLANTING. 



By George W. Minier, Minier, 111. 



In the April number of your excellent Journal is an article from my 

 worthy and very much esteemed friend. Dr. J. A. Warder, on " Timber 

 Planting on the Prairies and elsewhere," written in his usual beautiful 

 style, but, as it appears to me, not with his usual discrimination. I 

 have waited some months for Bryant, or some one else, to criticise this 

 article ; but as no one seems to be willing to undertake the task, I do it 

 with some reluctance. I certainly should not pay any attention to this 

 matter if it was from an ordinary pen. But Dr. Warder's name is a 

 tower of strength, and of deserved authority every way. 



I indorse every word on the subject of tree planting, both as to its 

 utility and necessity, but must differ from him in regard to some of the 

 varieties. Trees should be planted by every one owning a prairie farm ; 



