REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON GARDENS 

 FOR THE YEAR 1905. 



BY OAKES AMES, CHAIRMAN. 



During the year 1905 the Committee on Gardens received ten 

 entries for the prizes of the Society. Of these entries six called 

 for the inspection of gardens devoted to herbaceous flowers or 

 vegetables, two for an examination of tree plantations, and two 

 for visits to greenhouses. In addition to its regular work, the 

 committee accepted an invitation to witness a demonstration at 

 Jamaica Plain of power spraying for the destruction of the gypsy 

 and brown-tail moth caterpillars. 



In January the Board of Trustees passed a vote requesting the 

 committee to consider the expediency of holding in the City of 

 Boston a field demonstration to stimulate interest in the extermina- 

 tion of insect pests. At the same meeting it was voted that the 

 committee should consider the advisability of offering prizes for 

 the renewal of neglected apple orchards. In accordance with these 

 suggestions a special meeting was held and the propositions of the 

 Board were carefully considered. Though favorable to these prop- 

 ositions, the Committee on Gardens has not found it practicable 

 to carry them into effect during the present year. 



The following is a record in detail of the visits made in 1905. 



George F. Fabvax's Greenhouse, Brookline. 



The first visit was made March 7 to the estate of George F. 

 Fabyan at Brookline to inspect his greenhouse devoted to the cul- 

 tivation of choice plants. The greenhouse is 120 feet long by 

 twenty feet wide and is partitioned into four sections. In the first 

 section, palms, ferns and other foliage plants, together with many 

 orchids are grown. In the second section was a display of cycla- 



