REPORT 



COMMITTEE ON PUBLICATION AND DISCUSSION. 



The work of the year appears so fully in the published Transac- 

 tions, as to make unnecessary any extended report. For the 

 accurate and excellent digest of the discussions, as well as the 

 supervision of all our prifited reports, the society is largely indebted 

 to our Secretary. 



We are happy to report that the manuscript of the .fifty years' 

 history of the Society is now completed, and has been placed in the 

 hands of the Committee for publication. Your Committee have 

 now under consideration the manner and the time of publication. 

 Although no definite plan has been decided upon, yet it may be 

 proper to sa}^ that the volume, which will make about four hundred 

 octavo pages, will doubtless be issued during the coming year. 



The number of essaj's competing for prizes has been unusually 

 small this year ; hence, we shall have but little material in this 

 form to present at our meetings for discussion. It is, therefore, 

 the more desirable that our members, who have had so much 

 experience in the various branches of our art, should show a readi- 

 ness to contribute their observations for these discussions. Could 

 we but bring to light the experiments and the results of our most 

 successful cultivators, we should make additions to horticultural 

 knowledge which would be well worth}^ of permanent record. 



A prize of $25 has been awarded to J. W. Pierce, of West 

 Millbury, Mass., for an Essaj' upon the Culture and Marketing of 

 Apples, with special reference to the increased difficulty in the 

 profitable production of that fruit. 



KespectfuUy submitted by 



W. C. Strong, ^ Committee on 



A. B. MuzzEY, > Publication cmd 



E. L. Sturtevant, j Discussion. 



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