REPORT 



COMMITTEE ON VEGETABLES, 



FOR THE YEAR 1896. 



By CHARLES N. BRACKETT, Chairman. 



The exhibition season for the year 189G is just concluded, and 

 a brief report of the doings of your Committee is now in order. 



We are highly gratified to be able to report that our exhibitions 

 in this department the past year have shown an onward movement, 

 which testifies more plainly than any other evidence could do that 

 the progress which is being made in vegetable culture is highly 

 satisfactory. lu each and every class the state of perfection in 

 which the generality of exhibitors brought their various produc- 

 tions to the contest has been very good, and after making due 

 allowance for the diversity of location and the effect upon some 

 crops of the contingencies of the weather, we have seen quite 

 enough to satisfy us that intelligent minds are engaged and careful 

 hands are at work in growing the various products of the earth to 

 that high degree of luxuriance and perfection which the judicious 

 union of art in aid of nature's efforts can olone effect. Still, at none 

 of our exhibitions has there been the least difficulty in detecting the 

 marked difference between the well tended crop and its less fortu- 

 nate competitor. 



With a season favorable to vegetable growth, our weekly shows, 

 from the first Saturday in July to the Annual Exhibition, have been 

 unusually full and fine, and seemed to be thoroughly appreciated 

 by the visiting public. 



As usual, verv good exhibits of forced vegetables were made 



