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and handbills should be forwarded to the department at 

 least a week prior to the commencement of each course of 

 lectures. Each lecture should be followed by a discussion, 

 during which persons interested in horticulture and bee- 

 keeping will be invited to ask questions. Where a course 

 of lectures has already been given a new syllabus should 

 be presented. 



10. The county committee may purchase fruit, forest 

 and other trees, shrubs, or plants, in bulk, and resell them 

 at cost price, including carriage, to farmers, cottagers and 

 other residents in the county. As, however, it has come 

 to the knowledge of the department that trees and plants 

 infested with disease have been imported into Ireland, it 

 will be necessary for county committees who intend to 

 put this clause into operation to invite from nurserymen 

 tenders for the supply of trees, etc., to be guaranteed free 

 from disease, and before acceptance to submit the tenders 

 to the department for examination. The department 

 may, if they think it advisable, inspect the trees, etc., 

 that are offered for sale, and satisfy themselves that they 

 are suitable and free from disease. 



11. The horticultural demonstrations should commence 

 early in autumn and be continued throughout the whole 

 year. 



12. In each circuit one demonstration plot may be 

 provisionally selected for the purpose of growing fruit, 

 vegetables, and flowers, and showing improved methods 

 of cultivation, but no new plots shall be selected in a county 

 if a sufficient number of suitable plots have been estabhshed 

 in previous years. 



