January 9. 1909 



HORTICULTURE 



41 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICUL- 

 TURAL SOCIETY. 



Saturday, Jan. 2, was annual meet- 

 ing day with the Massachusetts Hor- 

 ticultural Society. It was called at 

 noon and President Stephen M. Weld 

 was in the chair. 



The president's address first re- 

 ferred to the fact that the society was 

 still spending more money than it got 

 from its income, which he said was 

 not a businesslike proposition. He 

 hoped that the new year would see 

 the present deficit wholly made up. 

 He urged the members to bear in 

 mind how much funds and additional 

 members were needed. 



During the year 27 new members 

 were elected, making the present 

 membership 838. There have been 

 24 deaths in the ranks. There were 

 thirteen exhibitions held, and public 

 interest in these has been well sus- 

 tained. In regard to the giving of 

 prizes. General Weld said there is 

 an increasing desire on the part of 

 some of the members to have the so- 

 ciety give medals in place of money. 

 He believed it was the true ground 

 on which the society shall ultimately 

 have to distribute rewards for merit. 



Reports of secretary and librarian 

 and the chairmen of the various 

 standing committees were presented 

 in full. 



George McWilliam exhibited a beau- 

 tiful specimen in flower of a seedling 

 calanthe, a cross between C. Regneri 

 (the straight . bulbed variety) and 

 Sandhurstiana. It is a beautiful flower, 

 white with pink and bright crimson 

 marked lip and is particularly re- 

 markable for the fact that it fills in 

 or "bridges over" the interim between 

 the flowering of the early and 'ate 

 flowering varieties. 



Standinq Committees for 1909. 



Finance -Walter Hunnewell. Chair- 

 man; Arthur F. Estabrook, Stephen M. 

 Weld. 



Library — C. S. Sargent, Chairman; 

 George B. Dorr, Samuel Henshaw. 

 Charles S. Minot, Henry P. M^alcott. 



Lectures and Publications — William 

 J. Stewart, Chairman; John A. Petti- 

 grew, William P. Rich, Mary L. Ware, 

 F. A. Waugh. 



Prizes and Exhibitions — John K. M. 

 L. Farquhar, chairman; Robert Cam- 

 eron. V/illiam N. Craig, Edward Mac- 

 Mulkin, C. S. Sargent, William Sim. 



Plants and Flowers^T, D. Hatfield, 

 Chairman; Duncan Finlayson, Peter 

 Fisher, Thomas Roland, William 

 Thatcher. 



Fruits — Wilfrid Wheeler, Chairman; 

 Harry F. Hall, Edward B. Wilder. 



Vegetables — Josiah B. ShurtlefE, Jr., 

 Chairman; John W. Duncan, George D. 

 Moore. 



Gardens — Charles W. Parker. Chair- 

 man; "William H. Bowker, Arthur H. 

 Fewkes, Thomas J. Grey, T. D. Hat- 

 field, Julius Heurlin, Wm. P. Rich, J. 

 B. Shurtleft. Jr., Thomas H. Westwood, 

 S. M. Weld, Wilfrid Wheeler. 



Children's Gardens — Mrs. R. G. Shaw, 

 Chairman: Mrs. E. M. Gill, Mrs. Kath- 

 arine P. Peabody, Mrs. Dudley L. Pick- 

 man, Miss Margaret A. Rand, Mrs. 

 John E. Thayer. 



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ISreiirhleyensU (true). Fiery scarlet. Se- 

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