REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON LECTURES AND 

 PUBLICATIONS FOR THE YEAR 1908. 



BY JOHN A. PETTIGREW, CHAIRMAN. 



The Committee on Lectures and Publications reports that the 

 Transactions of the Society have been issued as usual in two parts 

 and a series of nine lectures and one general conference have been 

 given. 



It has been the aim of the committee to make the lectures as 

 practical as possible and to that end the lecturers, for the most 

 part, have been chosen from among those who have successfully 

 carried out in practice the various subjects treated. 



The Conference on Grape Growing, held INIarch 28, was of 

 special interest and many of the most prominent growers in the 

 state took part in the general discussion. 



The course of lectures given was as follows: January 11. The 

 Concord Grape and its Originator. By Wilfrid Wheeler, Concord. 



January 18. Opportunities for Commercial Apple Growing in 

 New England. By Prof. F. C. Sears, Amherst. 



January 25. Annuals and Biennials. By Robert Cameron, 

 Cambridge. 



February 1. Treatment of Home Grounds. By Frederick 

 Law Olmsted, Jr., Brookline. 



February 8. Vegetable Growing under Glass. By William 

 Turner, Oceanic, N. J. 



February 15. Hardy Conifers for Private Grounds. By John 

 Dunbar, Rochester, N. Y. 



February 29. The Private Gardener. By Robert Craig, 

 Philadelphia. 



March 7. Agricultural Education in the Schools. By Pres. 

 Kenyon L. Butterfield, Amherst. 



March 14. Development of Disease Resistant Varieties of Plants. 

 By Prof. H. S. Jackson, Newark, Del. 



March 28. Conference on Grape Growing. 



These lectures and the discussions following them have been 

 printed in the Transactions of the Society for 1908, Part I. 



John A. Pettigrew ] 



Miss Mary L. Ware [ Committee. 



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