130 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



J. D. W. French read the following resolutions, adopted by 

 the American Forestry Association at their eighth annual meeting, 

 held at Philadelphia, October 15 t® 18, 1889 : 



Resolved, That we respectfully petition the Senate and House 

 of Representatives of the United States to pass an act withdraw- 

 ing temporarily from sale all distinctively forest lands belonging 

 to the Government of the United States, as recommended by the 

 Secretaries of the Interior during the past three administrations, 

 and providing for their protection, and authorizing the employ- 

 ment of the army, if necessary for this purpose, until a Commis- 

 sion, to be appointed by the President, shall have made such 

 examination of the forests on the public domain as shall be 

 necessary for determining what regions should be kept permanently 

 in forest, and shall have presented a plan for a national forest 

 administration. 



Resolved, That we also petition the Senate and House of 

 Representatives to authorize the President of the United States to 

 appoint a Commission for the purpose of examining the forests 

 on the public domain and reporting to Congress a plan for their 

 permanent management, and that Congress make the necessary 

 appropriations for such Commission. 



Mr. French moved that the Massachusetts Horticultural Societ}'^ 

 endorse these resolutions, and that copies be sent to the Massa- 

 chusetts Senators and Representatives in Congress, expressing 

 the approval of this Society, and urging that action be taken to 

 carry out the measures asked for in said resolutions. 



The motion was unanimously carried. 



Adjourned to Saturday, March 8, 1890, at half past eleven 

 o'clock. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Some Aspects of the Present Forestry Agitation. 



By Joseph T. Rotheock, Professor of Botany, University of Pennsylvania, 

 Philadelphia, Penn. 



The present forestry agitation represents one of two things : — 

 either a great cause, or no cause. We shall first of all in this 

 paper endeavor to show that it is the former one of these alterna- 

 tives ; and then to suggest some measures, which, if our case is 

 made a clear one, would appear to be both proper and pressing. 



