REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LECTURES AND 

 PUBLICATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1911. 



By Edward B. Wilder, Chairman. 



Your committee with some trepidation decided to try the 

 experiment this year of changing the hour of the lectures from 11 

 A. M. to 2 P. M. 



The experiment has proved most satisfactory. Beginning the 

 first lecture with an audience of two hundred and fifty persons we 

 reached an attendance at the last lecture of five hundred, with an 

 average (including one very stormy Saturday) of about three 

 hundred per day for the whole course. We respectfully submit 

 the following Program of Lectures and Discussions for 1912, a 

 copy of which has been mailed to every member of the Society. 



In preparing this program it has been our endeavor to include 

 all the different departments of the work carried on by this Society 

 and at the same time secure a program which would be instructive 

 and interesting with eminent lecturers on vital horticultural sub- 

 jects. 



Program of Lectures for 1912. 



January 13. Vocational Agricultural Education. By Rufus W. 



Stimson, Boston. 

 January 20. Plant Introduction as a Government Policy. By 



David Fairchild, Washington. 

 January 27. Insect Pests of the Garden and Orchard. By Prof. 



Edson F. Hitchings, Orono, Maine. 

 February 10. General Discussion on Flower Culture. Opened 



by Robert Cameron, Cambridge. 

 February 17. Fungous Diseases of the Chestnut and Other Trees. 



By Dr. Haven Metcalf, Washington. 



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