TRANSACTIONS OF THE Massachusetts Horticultural Society. BUSINESS MEETING. SATURDAY, April 7, 1888. A duly notified stated meeting of the Society was holden at 11 o'clock, the President, HENRY P. WALCOTT, in the chair. The President, as Chairman of the Executive Committee reported a recommendation that the Society appropriate $100 to continue the Card Catalogue of Plates in the Library. This appropriation was unanimously voted by the Society. The recommendation that the Society appropriate $6,000, for prizes for the year 1888, which was omitted at the meeting on the first Saturday in January, came up for action, and this appropriation also was unanimously voted. The following named persons, having been recommended by the Executive Committee for membership in the Society, were, on ballot, duly elected: Mrs. LOUISA A. MORRISON, of Boston. Adjourned to Saturday, May 5. BUSINESS MEETING. SATURDAY, May 5, 1888. The meeting of April 7, having adjourned to this day, was called to order by PRESIDENT WALCOTT, but, no quorum being present, it Adjourned to Saturday, June 2. BUSINESS MEETING. SATURDAY, June 2, 1888. The meeting of May 5, having adjourned to this day, was called to order by Vice-President WILLIAM H. SPOONER, but, no quorum being present, it Adjourned to Saturday, June 9. BUSINESS MEETING. SATURDAY, June 9, 1888. An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at 11 o'clock, the President, HENRY P. WALCOTT, in the chair. The Annual Report of the Committee on Publication and Discussion was read by O. B. Hadwen, Chairman, accepted, and referred to the Committee on Publication. E. W. Wood stated that at the last session of the State Legislature, a law was passed increasing the number of members of the Board of Control of the State Agricultural Experiment Station from seven to eleven, and providing that one of the additional members should be chosen by this Society. Mr. Wood moved that a committee be appointed to nominate a candidate to represent the Society on the Board of Control. The motion was carried, and the Chair appointed as the Committee, Mr. Wood, Francis H. Appleton, and Benjamin G. Smith. The Committee retired, and after consultation reported the name of William C. Strong. The report was accepted, and Mr. Strong was unanimously elected the representative of the Society on the Board of Control of the State Agricultural Experiment Station. The meeting was then dissolved. BUSINESS MEETING. SATURDAY, July 7, 1888. A duly notified stated meeting of the Society was holden at 11 o'clock, the President, HENRY P. WALCOTT, in the chair. Joseph H. Woodford proposed the following amendment to the Constitution and By-Laws : At the beginning of Section XXXIII, strike out the words "Prizes or gratuities may be awarded to any person" and substitute the following,-"Prizes may be awarded to any member of the Society residing in this State, and gratuities may be awarded to any person," the change to take effect on the first day of January, 1889. The proposed amendment, having been twice read, was, by a majority vote, ordered to be entered on the records for consideration at the stated meeting on the first Saturday in October. The following named persons, having been recommended by the Executive Committee for membership in the Society, were, on ballot, duly elected : Miss KATHARINE HORSFORD, of Cambridge. Mrs. CHARLES A. STEARNS, of East Watertown. GEORGE A. WHITE, of Roxbury. JOHN V. N. STULTS, of Roxbury. BENJAMIN W. CROWNINSHIELD, of Boston. ARTHUR B. SHEDD, of Fort Wayne, Indiana. Adjourned to Saturday, August 4. |