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tion. He is the best type of a broad-spirited, enjoyable Michigan farmer. 

 He has traveled widely, and has been a keen observer of Nature. He 

 enjoys proximity to wild things and watches with interest the different 

 phases of natural beauty as they develop with the season, as well as the 

 movements and habits of bird, animal and insect life. He gets real com- 

 fort out of a farm environment, and knows all the attractive viewpoints 

 in the vicnn.ity of his farm home at Greenville, Michigan. 



Ossian C. Simonds is a landscape gardener, whose home is in Chicago, 

 but who has a \ery warm place in his heart for everything connected with 

 the Peninsular State. Grand Rapids was his birthplace, and his school 

 education was obtained entirely in Michigan. He is a graduate from the 

 Michigan T'niversity. He prepared for engineering work, and expected to 

 follow it or architecture, but as a result of circumstances, switched off 

 to the landscape gardening, and has made his business a great success 

 because he loves it. The field of his labor is from the Atlantic coast to 

 the Great Divide, and from the lakes to the Gulf. His constant entertain- 

 ing study is connected with Nature in her varying moods, and as a result 

 he has adapted to his art the most beautiful pictures found in. Nature's 

 landscape. He has an unusually prophetic eye in his creations and a 

 method of inducting into his i)lans his own conceptions of his art. 



Prof. Charles A. Davis, of the Michigan University, is assistant pro- 

 fessor of forestry, and is a co-worker with Prof. Roth in the Forest School 

 established there. He was called from the natural history chair in Alma 

 College to this work in the university because of his great interest in the 

 work of reforestation in Michigan. He has traveled quite widely over the 

 State and has been such a keen observer of conditions that his counsel 

 with reference to the broad questions of reforesting Michigan is of the 

 very best. He is prominent in scientific circles, and takes a deep interest 

 in the woi'k of the Michigan Academy of Science. 



Lyman A. Lilly is a graduate of the Agricultural College in our State, 

 and has most of his career followed farming in Allegan county. He loves 

 the problems of the farm, and enjoys working at plans in connection with 

 soil cultivation and management, with reference to gaining information 

 rather than making money. He has filled positions of trust in his home 

 county, and has only recently taken up his home in Petoskey. 



Prof. C. D. Lawton, of Lawton, Michigan, has throughout his entire 

 career taken a deep interest in the problems that affected the welfare and 

 prosperity of IMichigan. Through long years of experience, he became 

 thoroughly acquainted with the mining possibilities and interests of the 

 Northern Peninsula, and in these investigations became, through kindred 

 associations, an enthusiast concerning the wood cover of our State. As re- 

 gent in our State University, he took an active interest in the establishment 

 of the School of Forestry, and in season and out of season combats any- 

 thing in the way of vandalism as connected with the destruction of natural 

 beauty. The Lawton family have been public-spirited citizens, and Regent 

 Lawton's brother was a most efficient associate of the writer in forming the 

 present law for planting and protecting trees on the highway, which was 

 enacted in 1881. Prof. La-«ton, from the early days of the Michigan 

 Horticultural Society, ha,s been one of its most active members, and has 

 been very successful in awakening a practical interest in commercial 

 fruit growing in Southwestern Michigan. 



Hon. E. W. Barber is the accomjilished editor of the Jackson Patriot, 



