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the name of the Commhtee on School Gardens and Native Plants 

 to the Committee on Children's Gardens and to discontinue further 

 exhibitions of children's herbariums and native plants. An appro- 

 priation of S150.00 was voted for the Committee on Children's Gar- 

 dens for the year 1906. • 



Prof. Sargent, chairman of the committee on the revision of the 

 Schedule of Prizes and Exhibitions for the year 1907, presented 

 the following report: 



Your committee asked at a recent meeting to prepare a scheme for a 

 schedule of prizes to be awarded during the year 1907 finds, — 



That the number of exhibitions at which an admission is charged can be 

 advantageously reduced by giving one year an exhibition of early spring 

 flowers, like bulbs etc., in March, and the next year, in place of this exhi- 

 bition, an exhibition about the first week in June for azaleas, rhododen- 

 drons, and other plants in perfection at that season, and that the second 

 large exhibition of the year be given in November for chiysanthemums. 



That these two important exhibitions of the year should be supple- 

 mented by four, one-day, free exhibitions in May, June, and September, 

 the first for narcissi, the second for peonies, the third for roses and straw- 

 berries, and the fourth for dahlias. 



That all money prizes given at weekly exhibitions during the spring and 

 summer months should be discontinued, and that in place of these exhibi- 

 tious the Committee on Exhibitions and Awards should meet on everj^ 

 second Saturday from the first of March to the first of November to judge 

 any plants, flowers, fruits, or vegetables that may be brought to the Hall 

 for the recognition or endorsement of the committee, and that the com- 

 mittee should be authorized to expend a certain sum for medals and other 

 forms of endorsement for such exhibits. 



That prizes for wild flowers and for children's herbaria should be dis- 

 continued as such prizes in no way encourage horticulture; the collection 

 and display of wild flowers being the sphere of a botanical and not of a 

 horticultural society. 



That the Committee of Awards should have the right to employ experts 

 as judges, and that nurserjanen or florists making exhibits should have 

 the right, under the control of the Committee of Arrangements, to display 

 their trade catalogues in connection with their exhibits. 



That horticulture can be made more popular in the state by offering 

 prizes for the gardens of amateurs, that is, persons who do not employ a 

 gardener and do not employ a laborer regularly, and for bunches of the 

 flowers of perennial and annual plants grown by such amateurs and exhib- 

 ited before the Society; and that a taste for flowers can be further increased 



