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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



OFFICERS FOR 1887. 



President — Henry P. Walcott. 



Vice Presidents — Charles H. B. Beck, Benjamin G. Smith, Frelerick L. 

 Ames, William H. Spooner. 



Recording Secretary — Robert Manning. 



Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology — John Robinson. 



Professor of Entomology — Samuel H. Scudder. 



STANDING COMMITTEES. 



Executive — The President, chairman; the Chairman of the Finance Com- 

 mittee — Marshall P. Wilder, F. L. Ames, William C. Strong, Charles H. 

 B. Breck, Charles S. Sargent, Henry Weld Fuller, William H. Spooner. 



Finance — H. Hollis Hunnewell, chairman; Henry P. Walcott, Frederick L. 

 Ames. 



Publication and Discussion — 0. B. Had wen, chairman; Francis H. Appleton, 

 William H. Hunt. 



For Establishing Prizes — Chairman of Committee on Fruits, chairman; 

 Chairman of Committees on Flowers, Vegetables, and Gardens, C. M. Atkin- 

 son, E. L. Beard, Jackson Dawson. 



Library — William E. Endicott, chairman; the Professor of Botany and 

 Vegetable Physiology, and the Professor of Entomology, Francis H. Apple- 

 ton, J. D. W. French, G. W. Humphrey, Nathaniel T. Kidder. 



Gardens — John G. Barker, chairman ; Chairmen of the Committees on 

 Fruits, Flowers, and Vegetables; Charles W. Ross, Benjamin G. Smith, Henry 

 W. Wilson. 



Fruit — E. W. Wood, chairman; Benjamin G. Smith, Warren Fenno, 

 Charles F. Curtis, J. W. Manning, 0. B. Hadwen, Samuel Hartwell. 



Plants and Flowers — Joseph H. Woodford, chairman; F. L. Harris, Warren 

 H. Manning, David Allen, William A. Manda, Arthur H. Fewkes, Michael 

 H. Norton. 



Vegetables — Charles N. Brackett, chairman; Warren Heustis, P. G.^Hanson, 

 George Hill, Jacob Hittinger, Cephas H. Brackett, Varnum Frost. / 



Committee of Arrangements — Edward L. Beard, chairman; Chairmen of 

 Committees on Fruits, Flowers, Vegetables, and Gardens, Charles L. Fowle, 

 Warren Heustis. 



The above list of officers is given complete because in no other way can we 

 give at a glance so perfect an impression of the scope and work of this oldest 

 -and best horticultural organization in America. 



During a large part of the year this society holds weekly meetings for dis- 

 cussions and these are published, not only in the official transactions of the 



