184 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



With the use of glass it has been found that plants and flowers 

 can be brought to perfection and so the vegetable growers have 

 found that with glass a perfect crop can be produced. Within 

 the past ten years at least 100 houses have been built each year 

 in this state and by the use of this glass a great deal has been accom- 

 plished. ^Slany varieties have been improved and some new ones 

 added. 



Much can be done by the ISlassachusetts Horticultural Society 

 in having these products displayed, and some inducements must 

 be made to the growers to get them to show their goods at our 

 exhibitions. 



Your committee will do all in its power to bring this about and 

 we are willing to take hold and assist all other departments in order 

 to bring this Society up to where it belongs, the foremost in the 

 land for the quality of its exhibitions. 



We believe in offering good prizes, not a large number of them, 

 but of sufficient size to enable the exhibitor to make a creditable 

 display. We find that the past year many collections have been 

 exhibited which were very creditable to the Society and also to the 

 exhibitor. We think more attention should be given in this direc- 

 tion and in our next schedule you will find that we have done so. 



Some changes have been made in the time of the exhibitions 

 with an idea of holding the shows at a time when the special crops 

 are in their prime or in season. We have also lessened the number 

 of exhibitions by one. We offered for premiums the past year in 

 our schedule about S960.00. The Society gave us $900.00 and 

 we have awarded $857.00 or $43.00 less than the appropriation. 



For the coming year by the earnest effort of your committee we 

 have obtained the amount of $1200.00 for which we are very grate- 

 ful, and we will do our best to make the vegetable exhibitions equal 

 to those of any other department of the Society, always bearing in 

 mind that, as ]Massachusetts in the production of vegetables stands 

 first in the land, so shall the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 stand in the character of its exhibitions. 



It is with sincere regret that we have to record in this report the 

 death of a member of our committee, Joshua C. Stone, who died 

 at his home in Watertown, October 2, 1905, at the age of 70 years. 



He was one of the most widely known and respected market 



