Excerpt from Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society for the Year 1914, Vol. 1 The work of the Society in promoting interest in, and spreading knowledge of horticulture, has been carried forward energetically during the past year. There never was a time when the popular interest in gardening was so evident. The attendance at our lectures last year averaged the largest on record. Your Trustees believe that the Society should do still more In the way of teaching practical gardening, and to this end have arranged for practical demonstrations of garden work in our lecture room. They have also planned to supplement our time-honored Saturday lectures by a series of visits to places of horticultural interest in this vicinity. These excursions may be participated in by members of the Society and other interested persons, and they will be under the guidance of a competent horticulturist. Our Society has an unusual opportunity now to give direction and guidance to the present earnest, but too often uncertain and erring efforts of our people to utilize and beautify their gardens and grounds. The teachers in our public schools, the children's gardens in the tenement districts, and suburban garden clubs are all doing good work. I wish that our financial condition would permit us to establish classes for the training of teachers for such work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.