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borer; also sweet corn the culture of which has been given up 

 completely in some sections owing to the last named pest. As the 

 corn borer attacks other vegetables than celery and corn and is 

 steadily spreading it has become a most serious menace to vegetable 

 growers. 



The summer was an extremely wet one and both potatoes and 

 tomatoes suffered from the excess of moisture but we never had 

 cleaner and better grown specimens of each at our exhibitions. 



Vegetable collections have been good but in some cases more 

 artistic arrangement might have been made with very little effort. 

 Splendidly grown vegetables properly displayed are equally as 

 attractive as fruits or flowers and exhibitors should see to it that 

 each specimen is staged so as to show its individuality. We are 

 still much behind the European shows when it comes to artistic 

 groupings. We can grow good specimens, why not take time to 

 properly display them? There is also great need for improvement 

 in nomenclature. The rules of the Society are not obeyed at all in 

 many cases and exhibitors must be taught the absolute necessity 

 of labeling all exhibits plainly, not with small wooden labels, tags, 

 or strips of paper of variable size, but with plain cards of a uniform 

 size either printed, typed, or written in ink. There is a crying need 

 of better labeling of not only vegetables but of flowers and fruits 

 and this was especially true at our August and September shows. 



Appropriations for vegetables were small in 1922 and for several 

 preceding years. They are much more liberal for the coming year 

 and we look to see more extensive and better grown displays of 

 vegetables at the shows in 1923 than for many years. A combined 

 vegetable and fruit exhibition is scheduled for September 28-30, 

 1923, and we would earnestly urge the support of commercial 

 growers, who have been all too few of late, private gardeners, and 

 amateur cultivators, so that we may have displays at this and 

 other exhibitions which will reflect credit to the Society. It will be 

 particularly pleasing to have specimens shown of new and unusual 

 vegetables such as Miss Case of Hillcrest Gardens has done so 

 much to popularize. 



The William B. H. Dowse Trophj^ offered to the exhibitor mak- 

 ing the best showing of vegetables during the year was awarded to 

 Oliver Ames of North Easton (Edward Parker, gardener). The 



