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horticulture, and have foUoM'ed this opinion by securing Professor 

 Osterhout for another course for the lecture season of 1921 which 

 will deal with a somewhat more chemical side of horticulture. 

 Notices of this course will give complete information. 



The committee for 1920 also has arranged for a series of explana- 

 tory work, through lecturers or docents, accompanying the exhi- 

 bitions of the year 1921. This was possible because of the generous 

 offer of Miss Marian R. Case to pay the expenses of such work. 



The committee has reduced the published transactions of the 

 Society to one volume for 1920, containing annual reports, com- 

 mittee reports, inaugural address, and such matters. General 

 horticultural matters will not be included. It is proposed to do 

 more with Bulletins, which will be issued irregularly and not at 

 stated intervals, and which chiefly will contain horticultural 

 information. The committee would be glad to receive suggestions 

 at any time relating .to its work. 



REPORT OF THE SECRETARY AND LIBRARIAN. 



Two principal features stand out prominently in the activities of 

 the Society during the year 1920. The first is the Grand Exhibi- 

 tion of Orchids and Other Plants in March, details of which will 

 be found in the reports of the Committee on Prizes and Exhibitions 

 and the Committee on Plants and Flowers. The other feature is 

 the stand taken by the Society in regard to the drastic regulations 

 of the Federal Horticultural Board's Quarantine No. 37. In con- 

 junction with the Horticultural Society of New York, the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society, and numerous other horticultural 

 organizations throughout the country a strong protest is being 

 made of these regulations which are practically an embargo on the 

 introduction of new and desirable garden plants and an obstacle 

 to horticultural progress. 



In addition to the March exhibit of orchids Mr. Albert C. Burrage 

 has made monthly exhibits of orchid plants in flower showing the 

 plants as they come into bloom month by month throughout the 

 year. 



