Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, 1895 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Twenty-Fifth Annual Report of the Secretary of the State Horticultural Society of Michigan, 1895 Nothing was lacking to the success and pleasure of the meeting of the Society at the Agricultural College, the 26th and 27th of June, except that the attendance was very far from what it should have been. Still, considering the busy season with fruitgrowers, the number present was as great as could have reasonably been expected. However, if the horticulturists of the state are ever to see this institution and understand by observation the important work it is doing, they must on some such occasion put aside their labor and go during the growing season. There was a strong desire among those who did go, to have it tried over again next year, in hope to interest a far greater number. The utmost care was exercised by the faculty to make the visit of the horticulturists as pleasant as possible and productive of a thorough insight into the efforts making for the advance of their particular branch of agriculture. Certainly, none of the visitors could have failed to see that horticulture, in is various branches, receives fully its share of attention. The evidences of this are at hand from the moment of entering upon the grounds, for almost the first object is the pear orchard and many groups of shrubbery and trees planted to enhance the beauty of the grounds. Almost everywhere may be seen other forms of horticulture. The great campus is adorned abundantly by aid of landscape gardening, while floriculture adds beauty at every hand. This campus, by the way, is said, by those competent to pass judgment, to be the finest possessed by any American college. It is improved noticeably each year, and was at this time, despite the evidences of the long drouth, a place of entrancing beauty. Upon it are nearly or quite all the trees native to Michigan, with a very great number of those of foreign climes which are adaptable to this state. Latterly, under direction of Prof. Taft, efforts have been made to group together the species of each class, so as the better to enable students to compare them and study their peculiarities and variations. Most of the trees, shrubs, and flowers bear labels giving their botanical names, to which are added, in most cases, the common names. This enables even the unskilled in such matters to learn valuable lessons in nature. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.