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The owners' names have not yet been known by the Com- 

 mittees, so that no one (;an have the chance of sayhig that any 

 partiality has been shown. It is now the time when the 

 siiperintencleiit of the hall should bo instructed to give the 

 chairman of the committee the book which contains a list of 

 exhibitors, with their numbers prefixed to their names, and a 

 complete list of the articles each exhibits following his name. 

 Then let the Chairman write on each premium card the ex- 

 hibitor's name and the name of specimen for which the award 

 was made. 



It would be well to provide cards twelve inches long by 

 three and a half inches wide, on each side of which should be 

 printed the names of every vegetable for which premiums are 

 oifered ; these to be placed in a slit, 'made in the end of a 

 round stick one-half an inch thick, and the whole supported 

 on a round base one inch thick and five or six inches in diam- ' 

 eter. If these are placed near what they represent, and the 

 card at right angles to the length of the tables, we shall have 

 given to our visitors the means of ascertaining at a glance, up 

 or down the tables, where everything is. This plan would 

 also be especialh^ good, if used in the display of fruit, which 

 is always fine at our shows, and would be the means, among 

 both vegetables and fruit, of acquiring for our exhibitors even 

 more credit than they can possibly derive at present. These 

 opinions are most respectfully submitted b}^ the Chairman of 

 this Committee, and are based, not only upon his experience 

 and observation in serviuG; at our last show with a number of 

 gentlemen most admirably qualified for the place, but also 

 from what he has seen at many other shoAvs in this country 

 and in Europe. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Societv had not concluded 

 to fully adopt this plan until this centennial year ; wh}' can- 

 not we begin the new century by adopting it before our next 

 show ? 



For the Committee, 



Feancis H. Appleton, Chairman. 



