JUL 13 1904

The Committee on Publication and Discussion take this opportunity to repeat what they have heretofore stated, that the Society is not to be held responsible for the certainty of the statements, the correctness of the opinions, or the accuracy of the nomenclature, in the papers and discussions now or before published, all of which must rest on the credit or judgment of the respective writers or speakers, the Society undertaking only to present these papers and discussions, or the substance of them, correctly. The award of a prize or gratuity for an Essay is not to be understood as implying that the Committee approve it in every particular, but only that they believe it calculated, on the whole, to promote the science or art of Horticulture.

BENJAMIN G. SMITH, Chairman.