Much is found commendable, by English journals, in the management of American Horticultural Societies. The Gardeners' Chronicle says:

"The fifteenth annual report of the Michigan Horticultural Society, now before us, forms a substantial volume of over 500 pages. Its contents fitly illustrate what is being done in most States of the Union and in the Dominion of Canada, and they offer for our use, on this side of the Atlantic, an excellent model. Here if a society gets up one or two shows in the course of a year, it is thought to have accomplished its purpose. It has, perhaps, contributed successfully to the enjoyment of a large number of people, especially if, as is common in the provinces, the horticultural display be associated with fireworks, bicycle races, and other accompaniments more fitted for a country fair than for a society which is supposed to have more important aims in view. We have nothing whatever to urge against the recreation of the people - quite the contrary; only we allege that it is not the proper function of a horticultural society to provide it. A horticultural society exists for the advancement of horticulture, and it goes out of its way when it attempts to fulfill any other office. In the United States, though, we doubt not, the recreative element is not neglected, the horticultural societies mean business, and do not mix work and play, but work first and play afterwards.

In the case before us, we see the Michigan State Horticultural Society has four meetings yearly, and that it has associated with it numerous local societies, which seem all to work on the same general lines".