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$60. At the Spring Exhibition in March: Six Azaleas, S20 ; one 

 Stove or Greenhouse plant in bloom, $8. At the Rose Show, two 

 Stove and Greenhouse Flowering plants, $15. For the best 

 Market Strawberry Garden, $50. For the best Amateur Straw- 

 berry Garden, S30. At the Strawberry Show : For the best four 

 quarts of any variety, from the Lyman Fund, $20. For the best 

 Vineyard of one acre, $50. At the Annual Exhibition : For the 

 best six bunches of native Grapes in all cases, 63. Now, how 

 does this look? Ten Greenhouse and Stove plants would equal a 

 whole Flower Garden. So far as regards the amount of the prize 

 offered, eighteen Azaleas would equal the best arranged and best 

 kept Stove and Greenhouse with plants. Ten of the best quarts 

 of Strawberries would equal an entire Market Garden, and six 

 quarts would equal the Amateur. One hundred bunches of Grapes 

 would equal the Vineyard of an acre. These are facts. We beg 

 your careful consideration of these comparisons of prizes, and we 

 ask for your suggestions after giving it. If we, as a Society, are 

 doing all we can, and the sum allotted to this Committee is suffi- 

 cient, then there is nothing to be said, and we have only to keep 

 along in the well-worn rut ; if not yet doing our best, let us get 

 out of this rut, — and the sooner the better, — and let us wake up 

 thoroughly to the real merits of the case, and in future strive to 

 work justly and to the full measure of our ability and opportunities 

 for usefulness. 



The President in his annual address very properly alluded to 

 the meeting of the Society of American Florists held in Boston 

 last season. This event occupied a great deal of the time 

 of the active members of the Society, and at a season of the 

 year when this Committee usually make their visits to the vine- 

 yards. This and the meeting of the Association of American 

 Cemetery Superintendents kept us all busy, especially your 

 Chairman, with the last-named society. It may not be out of 

 place to say that this Association is only four years old, and if 

 it is small in number — only a trifle over one hundred active 

 members — it represents the whole country, and delegates were 

 present from most of the leading cemeteries in the United States ; 

 and among the eight honorary members, is one at Aarhuus, Den- 

 mark. The members have already realized the great benefit of 

 united effort, and the meetings that have been held were of in- 

 estimable value to all, but especially to those who are located at a 



