REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON PRIZES AND 

 EXHIBITIONS FOR THE YEAR 1916. 



By James Wheeler, Chairman. 



The Committee on Prizes and Exhibitions has held numerous 

 meetings during the year preparing the Schedule of prizes for the 

 year 1917 and arranging the exhibitions of 1916. 



The free exhibitions of the year have been good and well attended 

 but the pay shows do not have the support that the Society merits. 

 The large private estates do not make special efforts to bring in 

 large specimens of plants nor to exhibit new and rare varieties as 

 they formerly did. 



The commercial growers have come forward and supported the 

 Society generously, and while they cannot give the time to grow 

 special large plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables they bring in 

 the best they have and assist greatly in making the exhibitions of 

 today. 



The receipts of the pay shows may have been as good as the shows 

 merit. 



By direction of the Advisory Committee we have arranged a 

 large Spring Exhibition in March, 1917, and a Special Fruit Show 

 in October, omitting some of the smaller exhibitions and the usual 

 Autumn Show. 



The committee earnestly requests a larger cooperation of the 

 owners of large estates and their gardeners in taking greater interest 

 in the exhibitions of the Society. 



The Schedule of Prizes and Exhibitions for the year 1917 has 

 been approved by the Board of Trustees and published. 



It is earnestly hoped that all the members of the Society will 

 cooperate in making the coming year a notable one in the history 

 of the Society. 



James Wheeler 

 John K. M. L. Farquhar 

 Duncan Finlayson 

 T. D. Hatfield 

 A. H. Wingett 



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Committee, 

 on Prizes 

 and Exhibitions. 



