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This is very gratifying when we take into consideration the very 

 crowded and limited accommodations we have at some of our 

 shows. 



We are under still another obligation to our friend Jerome 

 Jones, Esq., for the loan of three very large and elegant china 

 vases for the display of chrysantliemums in November, thus giving 

 us eight large vases to meet all the entries made for these particular 

 prizes. 



The exhibitions this year have been quite as numerous as during 

 any former year, and yet at only two of them, the Spring and 

 Chrysanthemum Shows, has any admittance fee been charged. At 

 the end of this report will be found an account of the receipts 

 derived from these exhibitions. These are not as much as your 

 Committee would desire, and surely not nearly as much as it 

 would expect with better accommodations. We are under obliga- 

 tions to the newspapers for copious reports of our shows, but we 

 should be under much greater obligations if they would toll the 

 public what to expect before the shows take place, thereby giving 

 the people an inkling of what is to come off before the shows are 

 all over. 



The arrangements of plants and flowers at the different shows 

 have been varied so as to produce the most pleasing effect as a 

 whole, taking into consideration that none of your Committee 

 knows what will be sent in till the contributions reach the hall. 



The chairmen of other committees will tell you about the prog- 

 ress we are making in our noble art, and we trust tlieir reports 

 will be read with interest, pleasure, and profit by all our members. 



Receipts at Spring Exhibition . . . . . $319 75 

 Receipts at Chrysanthemum Show .... 654 50 



$974 25 

 all of which is in the Treasury of the Society. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Jos. H. Woodford, 



Chairman. 



