60 ANNUAL REPORT 



iaform me that they can print our transatioiis in lou^ primer type 

 and make a volume of 300 pages, the limit of the law, by reduc- 

 ing the number of bound volumes from 1,000 to 300 or 500, and 

 get it out by the first of April. 



A LARGER REPORT NEEDED 



On account of our prize essays, and the fuller report of discus- 

 sions that will be taken at this meeting it may be necessary to 

 issue a larger volume, probably 500 pages, and the law ought to be 

 amended so as to allow ns this as a maximum number of pages an- 

 nually to correspond with our increasing business, and it should 

 also be amended so as to authorize the binding of the entire edition 

 in cloth, as is done in all the other Western States. 



A consideration of this subject is earnestly recommended, that 

 ■we may not find ourselves restricted or crippled in our work at 

 this important stage of our career, 



HOW THE PROGRAM WAS MADE. 



A new departure has been made this year in the manner of getting 

 up the program for the annual meeting. The views of the Exec- 

 utive Committee were first obtained by correspondence and other 

 sources of information, then the program was m-.de up by the 

 President and Secretary, acting together, printed, and copies sent 

 to the several members of the committee for revision. After their 

 examination of it, as a whole, it was sent back to the Secretary with 

 notes of such alterations and additions as the members desired, and 

 then completed so as to suit the preferences of the committee as nearly 

 as possible without calling them together; and thus, when finally 

 printed for public distribution, it had received decided improve- 

 ments, and was in shape to offer an attractive bill of fare for the 

 meeting. The plan is worthy of future use. 



In the extensive correspondence of the Secretary there accumu- 

 lates and goes into his files a mass of facts and suggestions that, if 

 carefully edited and printed with the Society's Transactions, may, 

 together with such notes as he can make from time to time in the 

 reading and observation that come naturally in his routine of work, 

 be of much practical benefit to those who read our reports. Many 

 difiiculties in the way of the novice in Horticulture, or the amateur, 

 that puzzle and put him off in his growing of trees and plants can 

 be obviated by hints so picked up in reference to the practice of 

 others who have encountered like difficulties. It has been a pleasure 



