REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LECTURES AND 

 PUBLICATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1916. 



By Wilfrid Wheeler, Chairman. 



It is becoming increasingly difficult each year to find suitable 

 lecturers to fill the course as offered by the Society, and while the 

 interest in all subjects relating to horticulture still continues, the 

 large number of lectures and demonstrations given by local and 

 other organizations interested in horticulture serves to draw many 

 from our lectures. 



The question of shortening the course has been discussed by 

 your committee with the idea of securing persons from a distance 

 who might have a message to bring us. Our efforts along this line 

 have so far failed, possibly because of distance, possibly because 

 we are unable to offer large enough financial inducement. Your 

 Chairman feels, however, that these lectures should not be given 

 up, as they constitute one of the direct activities of the Society, 

 and are as important to the society as are the exhibitions. 



Many organizations are adopting the policy of having their 

 lecture course go on with their exhibitions and this is proving very 

 successful. Lectures relating to the plants, fruit, flowers, or vege- 

 tables exhibited are given and the public have the added inducement 

 to come, in that they see the exhibit and learn about the process 

 of growing the particular thing exhibited. This plan could be 

 carried out, provided an upstairs lecture hall could be equipped 

 in the building. 



The course of 1916 consisted of eleven lectures, and an attendance 

 of about two thousand was recorded. Lectures on fruit subjects 

 seem still to draw the largest attendance, with gardens and plant 

 exploring, close seconds. 



The course as offered for 1917 is quite varied and some very 

 interesting speakers have been secured. Your Chairman would 

 like to suggest that in advertising the lectures this year that street 



