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Nurseries, West Newbury, for iris; J. W. Manning, North 

 Wilmington, for deciduous shrubs; honorable mention to Old 

 Colony Nurseries, Plymouth, for shrubs, and to George B. 

 Eager, Wakefield, for evergreens. 



Second Seasofial Awards. 



Grand prize to Forbes & Keith, New Bedford, for collection 

 of dahlias; medal of honor to R. & J. Farquhar & Co., Boston, 

 for dahlias; gold medals to Geo. H. Walker, Dighton, for 

 dahlias; William Sim, Cliftondale, for gladioli America; B. 

 Hammond Tracy, Wen ham, for gladioli; silver medals to 

 Forbes & Keith, New Bedford, for Francis A. Butts dahlias and 

 seedling dahlias; Edward F. Dwyer & Sons, Lynn, for dahlias; 

 Bay State Nurseries, North Abington, for hardy perennials; 

 Cherry Hill Nurseries, West Newbury, for herbaceous peren- 

 nials; New England Nurseries, Bedford, for herbaceous per- 

 ennials, asters and Michaelmas daisies. 



When it is considered that many of these awards were made 

 in the face of severe competition, then the high quality of 

 Massachusetts nursery stock can be better appreciated. Many 

 of the growers who contributed this stock have expressed them- 

 selves as well pleased with the results, and particularly with 

 the Board's work in the arrangement of the exhibit. 



Massachusetts Agricultural Resources. 

 The preparation of the exhibit for the Panama-Pacific 

 Exposition demonstrated more than ever the need of some 

 systematized research study and tabulation of facts relative to 

 the agriculture of our State. We know in a general way what 

 we have in resources of land, forests, streams, soil, etc. We also 

 have a fair idea of what may be done with these resources, but 

 in order to develop them to the greatest advantage much work 

 has got to be done in order to get the necessary information 

 together. The Massachusetts Agricultural Development Com- 

 mittee are agreed upon a general plan which covers rather a 

 long period and goes into much detail. Whatever work is done 

 along this line should be primarily for the actual development 

 of the State. No experiment should be tried, no theories ex- 

 pounded, but the hard, cold facts, as they are found, placed 



