EEPORT 



COMMITTEE ON PDBLICATION AND DISCUSSION. 



The Committee on Publictitiou and Discussion feel that a report 

 of their doings is to some extent superseded by the publication, 

 as Part I, of the Transactions for 1874, of the discussions held 

 last winter, which speaks better than the Committee can of the 

 success of those discussions ; nevertheless they wish to say in 

 regard to the hope, expressed in the note prefatory to the Transac- 

 tions, that discussions might be held during the summer months, 

 that its failure is not owing to any want of diligence on the part 

 of the Committee. As in previous years, they had planned a dis- 

 cussion, on the culture of the rose, during the rose show, but 

 although many of our members possess the ability to give us an 

 essay on the subject, which would be both valuable and interest- 

 ing, the Committee were unable to find one, among several to whom 

 they applied, whose time and other circumstances would enable him 

 to prepare a paper to introduce the discussion. 



The By-Law establishing this Committee holds it " answerable 

 that the typographical and literary execution of the publications of 

 the Society shall not be discreditable." The Committee trust 

 that the last publication issued will be deemed to have met this 

 requirement, and if it does not rise above this negative standard 

 to positive excellence, they will spare no exertions in regard to 

 future publications. 



The Committee deem it not creditable to the horticulturists of 

 Massachusetts that no journal, specially devoted to their interests, 

 is published in this city, where, for thirty-four years, one of our 

 ex-presidents maintained a periodical which is so honorable a 

 memorial of his labors as a horticulturist ; and they are not without 



