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measure responsible. This condition is confined chiefly to 

 the neighborhood of cities and towns, and proves a serious 

 obstacle to fruit culture. 



With a view to extending the cultivation of fruit in the 

 sections of the State well adapted to the purpose, it might 

 be well to give a short summer course in fruit culture at the 

 station. 



We would again ask for a remedy preventive of the holly- 

 hock rust. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Society proposes this year 

 to put some meaning into the State law for prizes for planta- 

 tions of timber trees, and will offer a prize of $100 for a 

 plantation of not less than five acres, planted four years, com- 

 mencing in 1908, with a view of keeping in touch with the 

 State forestry department. This has been a negative law long 

 enough, and something is needed to vitalize it and make it of 

 value to the Commonwealth. 



Respectfully submitted, 



WILLIAM II. SPOOXER, 



Chairman. 



