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varieties, and by cross-impregnation, there is a wide field open 

 for improvement, and that all attempts at acclimation are 

 fruitless. Nor would we discourage the planting and proving 

 of the new varieties from other regions, holding fast such as 

 are suited ; and where they do not succeed in one location, it 

 is possible they may be adapted to another. This is especially 

 true with regard to the varieties of the strawberry. While 

 one cultivator cannot grow the President Wilder, another 

 declares he will grow no other ; and thus with the Hovey's 

 Seedling, which, after forty-two years of existence, has this 

 year carried off the highest prize offered by the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society for the strawberry. 



Marshall P. Wilder. 

 John B. Moore. 

 O. B. Hadwex. 

 The essay was accepted. 



After some discussion upon the Agricultural College, during 

 which Judsre Bennett suggested that the Examining Com- 

 mittee be enlarged to five members, on motion of Mr. Salton- 

 STALL, it was — 



Voted, That the Committee of Visitation to the Agricultural 

 College be a Standing Committee, to consist of five, of whom 

 the first two on the list shall, at the end of each year, retire, 

 their places to be filled by two new members, who shall be 

 added to the end of the list, by which method the Chairman 

 will always have three years' service. 



The Committee on Examination was constituted by the 

 appointment of Messrs. Bennett, Sargent, Had wen, Moore 

 and Chadbourne. 



Voted, To appoint a committee of three to suggest what 

 action should be taken with reference to the death of Hon. 

 Albert Fearing. Messrs. Sultonstall, Knowlton and Baker. 



The committee subsequently reported the following resolu- 

 tions : — 



Resolved, That in the death of Hon. Albert Fearing this 

 Board has sustained a great loss. Mr. Fearing, in his inter- 



