1863. 



THE ILLINOIS FAEMEB. 



m 



ble that the white willow will make good hop poles, 

 if so, hops can be cheaply grown with us. 



Why Nursery Trees Die. 



I meet a man with a wagon-load of trees, which 

 he has just purchased from the nursery. These 

 trees were dug last fall — that is, one of Overman's 

 tree-diggers was run under them. The farmer 

 goes to the nursery, selects his trees, and himself 

 and the nurseryman take hold of the top of the 

 tree, and proceed to pull it out of the ground. 

 Once out, great care is taken to shake the soil 

 cflfthe roots as clean as possible. It is thrown 

 down at the end of the plat, where it lies in the 

 sun until the load is dug or pulled. It is then put 

 into the wagon, no covering is put over it. The 

 roots lie fully exposed to the sun and drying wind. 

 The farmer drives his load of trees from five to 

 thirty-five miles. They are left in the wagon until 

 morning ; then they are drawn to the field — if it 

 happens to be convenient to put them in the ground 

 — and scattered over it near where they are to be 

 planted. No matter how hot the sun, how ex- 

 haustive the wind, nor how dry the soil, nor how 

 long they are to lie out of the ground, the trees 

 are not heeled in, nor are the roots puddled when 

 planted. Down they are put into a little, round, 

 dry hole — and if they do not grow and bear fruit 

 right away, the poor nurseryman is a rascal, and 

 his trees are good for nothing. I pass a nursery 

 and see what suggests this item ; I visit a farmer 

 who is planting, and the way he leaves his trees 

 illustrates what I have written. — Enrol 2f. Yorker. 



Illinois State Horticultural Society. 



The officers of the State Horiicultural Soriety 

 were in Rockford on "Wednesday and Thursday 

 last, and fixed on the time for holding the next 

 State Horticultural Fair, and also made up the 

 premium list. The fair will be held in this city 

 the second week in September, commeacing the 

 9th and ending the 11th. The premium list will 

 be published at an early day. The following reso- 

 lutions were adopted: 



Resolved, That we hail with pleasure the grow- 

 ing interest in Horticulture manifested by the peo- 

 ple of the State, and that we gladly accept the 

 compliment offered by the County Horticultural 

 Society of Tazewell in becoming auxiliary to the 

 State Society. 



Resolved, That we earnestly recommend the for- 

 mation of Horticultural Societies in the differeat 

 towns and counties throughout the State. 



Resolved, That the Executive Committee of the 

 State Horiicultural Society tender their thanks to 

 the Agricultural Society of Winnebago county for 

 the offer of their Fair Grounds to hold their next 

 annual exhibition, and gladly accept the compli- 

 ment. 



Resolved, That the Executive Committee of the 

 State Agricultural Society urge upon the Legisla- 

 ture, at their adjourned meeting in in June, to ac- 



cept the donation of land offered by Congress for 

 agricultural education. 



Resolved, That we tender our grateful thanks to 

 the citizens and horticulturists of the city of Rock- 

 ford for their kind and gratuitous entertainment 

 during our executive session. 



Geo. W. Minier, 

 O. B. Galusha, ; ;• 

 , G. X. Andrews, ;. 



W. C. Flagg, 

 Executive Committee. 



It was decided by the Committee that, in the 

 awards upon fruits, allowance for difference of lat- 

 itute should be made, in view of the early date of 

 the Fair and that unripeness should work no dis- 

 advantage to specimens from the Northern part of 

 the State. 



The following gentlemen were chosen delegates 

 to represent the State Horticultural Society at 

 the Chicago Canal Convention, June 2d, 1863 : O. 



B. Galusha, Lisbon ; C. W. Murtfeldt, Rockford : 



C. R. Overman, Bloomington ; W. C. Flagg, Alton; 

 T. J. Evans, South Pass. 



H. P. Kimball, of this city, was chosen Local 

 Secretary, to whom communications here should 

 be addressed. 



During the stay of the officers here, they visited 

 many of the gardens of the city, and expressed 

 themselves in very warm terms of commendation 

 at the attention paid to horticultural interests in 

 this city. — Rockford Register 



Grind the Tools. 



Keep the tools sharp or they will flot cut. A 

 dull tool wastes time, and he who permits it ta 

 work when in that condition, is a dull fellow. The 

 best turners are those who have tlie sharpest tools; 

 the most successful surgeons use the keenest knives^ 

 and the most enterprising and energetic men in 

 civil life are those whose wits have been early 

 ground sharp, and whose perceptive faculties have 

 been whetted by sore experience in early life. A. 

 dull tool is a useless implement, and a thick head- 

 ed, unobservant person is the only one who should 

 be found wielding it . The obtuse edge neither 

 cleaves nor separates, but bruises and works off 

 by attrition particles of the substance on which it 

 operates. Grind up the tools and sharpen the wit 

 as well ; if one is keen, the other will in all prob- 

 ability be in a similar state, from the force of sym- 

 pathy alone. A boy with a dull pocket knife is 

 one who swings on the gate and who dodges his 

 duty ; he is one who in after life will be a dunce 

 and a cumberer of the ground ; he will add ftoth- 

 ing to the world of science, neither will he take 

 from it; his existence is merely animal, his 

 thoughts and ideas, if he has any, wholly conven- 

 tional. His comrade with a keen blade, makes 

 models of machinery, of boats or steamers, and in 

 time he becomes a George Steers, or so developes 

 his mother wit as to be a decided requisition to 

 the community. Let us have all the tools in good 

 condition, sharp, trenchant, and always ready for 

 service ; then, and then only will the result pro- 

 duced be equal to th« time and labor expended. — 

 Scientific American. 



riMBinJJt't'ji'iiB.'i'ar \ 



