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committees have been continued from year to year, awarding first-class 

 certificates to the deserving ones. 



Such action brought the varieties certificated into prominence, and 

 those which failed to meet their commendation were so little sought after 

 as to be unprofitable, and many discontinued hybridizing. 



The first exhibition given by the C. S. A. was in November, 1902, 

 under the auspices of the Horticultural Society of Chicago. Since then 

 they have been held annually in the large cities both East and West. 



