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Fig. 1511. — Floral Exhibit at Woodstock. 



To our Affiliated Societies. 



We wish you all a Happy and a Prosperous 

 New Year. We wish to be mutually helpful 

 and to this end we are annually improving 

 our Journal. We invite your frequent Com- 

 munications for its pages, together with pho- 

 tographs of new or valuable fruits or flowers. 

 We are preparing a Constitution and By-laws 

 for Affiliated Horticultural Societies, which 

 we btlieve will greatly aid in the conduct of 

 your work. 



We would suggest to our 'Societies the wis- 

 dom of holding monthly meetings, say, on the 

 first Monday evening in each month, at which 

 a single paper be read by some member, and 

 fully discussed. 



A table of flowers would contribute to the 

 interest of each such meeting. 



We hope before long to be able to send you 

 a lecturer on some horticultural topic, and we 

 hope you will get as many of your members 

 out to hear him as you possibly can. We 

 would suggest the giving of a liberal collection 

 of plants for summer blooming, to be given 

 away at a public meeting in April or May. 

 We also advise floral exhibitions in connec- 

 tion with your public meetings, at which 

 award cards may be given, but no money 

 prises. 



In case of a special exhibition you will find 

 it best to have a floral committee to get a list 

 of the promised exhibits from members, and to 

 send a drayman to collect and return all plants 

 according to labels, and to arrange them at the 

 hall. An orchestra would greatly enliven 

 ' the evening. Members contributing flowers 

 to the exhibit should be admitted free, all 

 others should be charged 10 cents. 



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