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Fio. 1511.— Floral Exhibit at Woodstock. 



To our Affiliated Societies. 



We wish you all a Happy and a Prosperous 

 New Year. We wish to be mutually helpful 

 and to this end we are annually improving 

 our Journal. We invite your frequent Com- 

 munications for its pages, together with pho- 

 tographs of new or valuable fruits or flowers. 

 We are preparing a Constitution and By-laws 

 for Affiliated Horticultural Societies, which 

 we b> lieve will greatly aid in the conduct of 

 your work. 



We would suggest to our Societies the wis- 

 dom of holding monthly meetings, say, on the 

 first Monday evening in each month, at which 

 a single paper be read by some member, and 

 fully discussed. 



A table of flowers would contribute to the 

 interest of each such meeting. 



We hope before long to be able to send you 

 a lecturer on sotre horticultural topic, and we 

 hope you will get as many of your members 

 out to hear him as you possibly can. We 

 would suggest the giving of a liberal collection 

 of plants for summer blooming, to be given 

 away at a public meeting in April or May. 

 We also advise floral exhibitions in connec- 

 tion with your public meetings, at which 

 award cards may be given, but no money 

 prizes. 



In case of a special exhibition you will find 

 it best to have a floral committee to get a list 

 of the promised exhibits from members, and to 

 send a drayman to collect and return all plants 

 according to labels, and to arrange them at the 

 hall. An orchestra would greatly enliven 

 the evening. Members contributing flowers 

 to the exhibit should be admitted free, all 

 others should be charged 10 cents. 



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