and of gathering the flowers of the field. We knew to a day when the wild crocus would bloom, and the lapse of time between the appearance of the anemone and that of the violet. We needed no guide to direct us to the mossy beds and shady nooks to witness the uncurling of the delicate fern. From the opening of the first spring bud to the gathering of the harvest of nuts and mottled autumn leaves, can you recall a day spent in the fields and forests that was not one of purity and peace?

The recent observation of Arbor Day by the children of our schools, only leads to the higher suggestion of cultivating flowers about our public school building. This can be most successfully done, both indoors and out, with good effect, not only from the acquirement of knowledge by the children, but by the higher moral discipline involved. As the larger portion of the school year is during the winter months, the greater attention in this work should be applied to plants that can be successfully grown inside, as they can be made a great source of pleasure the year round. Our churchyards should have more flowers about them, all of which could easily be cared for by the children.

Let the young folks take part in the public exhibits, and see that their efforts are justly appreciated. They can exhibit wild flowers in bloom at the show season, or they can make an artistic botanical collection. Have them raise flowers with the idea of giving them away to make others happy. The inmates of our prisons and asylums, homes, and hospitals need their sympathy and good thoughts, as well as the gifts of their willing hands. Flowers are carried free by all express companies to these places, and when we stop to think how much pleasure and rest a suffering mind can find in a boquet or a single blossom, we can only wonder why these things are left undone. Men who have unwillingly led dark lives need the uplifting influences that the beauty of flowers, the gift of children, must bring them. Let their cooling fragrance rest the feeble and the sick, and let the children's flower day be an event which will be looked forward to and be remembered by hundreds of unfortunate sufferers. Parents should especially foster in their children the spirit of cheerful giving, and this beautiful trait can in no way be so easily promoted as in the distribution of flowers.

It has been truthfully said that the teacher who can successfully implant in the children of the world a love for flowers or beauty in any form-that teacher will prove the evangelist who shall help to elevate the world for all time.

HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 9.

Whereas the state board of horticulture, in its second biennial report to this legislative assembly, recommend and ask that—in view of the importance of some representation of our fruit interests at the World's Columbian exposition at Chicago in 1893 — ten thousand copies of its second biennial report be printed and placed at its disposal for distribution at that exposition, and that ten thousand copies be printed and placed at its disposal for distribution among the fruit growers of this state, making in all twenty thousand copies; and whereas the said board caused to be published, at its own expense, an edition of ten thousand copies of its first biennial report, all of which edition was distributed among the fruit growers of this state, and in exchange with kindred boards throughout the United States, and which number was not sufficient to supply the demand upon the board for them; and whereas the second biennial report is replete with valuable information concerning the fruit-growing interests of the entire state, treating as it does, in a full and comprehensive manner, on the best methods of exterminating the various pests that now infest our orchards, also on the best methods of selecting, planting, cultivating, preparing, and marketing of fruits, and which information should be widely disseminated among the horticulturists and farmers of this state in the interests of this great and valuable commercial industry; therefore,

Be it resolved by the House, the Senate concurring, That the secretary of state be and is hereby required to furnish, at the earliest practicable moment, an edition of twenty-five thousand copies of the second biennial report of the said state board of horticulture, and to deliver to the secretary of said board all of said edition, with the exception of sufficient copies to meet the demand on him and the other departments of the state from people abroad, who are contemplating removal to Oregon, and who are continually applying to these departments for information relative to Oregon as a fruitproducing state; and which information is so well presented in the aforesaid reports.

Adopted by the house, January 24, 1893.

W. P. KEADY, Speaker of the house.

Concurred in by the senate, January 25, 1893.

C. W. FULTON, President of the senate.