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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Committee feel impelled to call the attention of the contributors to 

 the first requirement, under the head of Prizes for Plants, Flowers, and 

 Bouquets, viz. : " All named varieties of plants or flowers, exhibited for pre- 

 mium, must have the name legibly and correctly written, on stiff card, wood, 

 or some other permanent substance, and each separate plant, or flower, must 

 have its name attached." 



Much embarrassment has occurred in passing judgment upon various speci- 

 mens of plants and flowers, from the fact that contributors have often been 

 unmindful, or negligent of the requirements of the above rule, either from 

 entire omission to record at all the names of the specimens contributed, or by 

 so imperfectly doing it as to leave a necessity for the Committee to supply 

 the want It cannot be overlooked, in this connection, that the Society have 

 a natural pride in this matter, that the visiting public should be left in no 

 doubt or uncertainty as to the names of specimens offered. 



All of which is respectfully submitted by 



E. AUGUSTUS STORY, 



Chairman of Flower CommtUet^ 



Approved, 



E. W. BUSWELL, 



C. H. B. Breck, 

 James McTeab, 

 Antone Apple, 



S. H. GiBBENS, 

 J. C, HOVET. 



Committee on Flaufers 

 far 1862. 



