trouble in relation to the nWftrJs of proniinms. Ami tliis wns referred to the ('onimitteo hivv- 

 inc the revision of the by-liiwo under con!>ideratiun. The President and E. S. Rand were added 

 t > that Committee. 



Mr. Joseph Breck, who had been recdeetod Chnirnmii of tlie Flower C'oinniiltee, declined to 

 serve another 5-ear, and Mr. F. Burr wa^ chosen in his place. Mr. J. F. C. Hyde was then added 

 to the Committee to fill tlie vacancy. 



Kxh'h'itcd — Fruit: — Only a small display of fruit was made to-day. W. C. Strong had very 

 fine Grapes, and Stephen Driver, Salom, superior Beurru Bosc pears. Mr. James Swan sent a 

 samjile of a Grape — evidently a new variety, and probably an accidental seedling — which the 

 Committee pronounced "extra large, fine flavored, and very juicy." Mr. Shepard, of Dorches- 

 ter, also sent seedling Pears, which the Committee state were "large, fine appearance and flavor, 

 slightly gritty." 



October 1-i. Exhibited — Fruit: — J. Breck & Son made a fine show of Grajics in variety, and 

 a few excellent Pears were shown by other contributors. 



October ^\. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day, — tlie President in the 

 chair. 



Mr. Walker, from the Committee appointed for that purpose, reported that it was expedient 

 to have a course of lectures by competent persons before the Society — an J the report was 

 lecepted, and the same Committee were authorized to procure lectures, <fec. 



Mr. R. M. Copeland, of Lexington, moved that the Report made by him, as Chairman of a 

 Committee on Scraping Trees, be taken from the table and discusssed, two weeks from to-day. 

 Adopted. 



Mr. C. M. Ilovey alluded to the doings of the meeting, October "7, when he was absent in New 

 York, and suggested that the records be so amended as to correspond with the report of what 

 had been done, and they were properly amended. 



E. S. Rand, Esq., then submitted the following preamble and resolutions: 



Whtrea.%, The Massachusetts Ilortioultural Society, at a mcotinR held on the 27lh day of May last adopted <he 

 Koport of a Committee appointed to examine into all the circumstances attending the award of certain premiums or 

 gratuities to Messrs. Hovey & Co., which Report, made by the said Committee in the discharge, as they deemed it, of 

 the duty imposed upon and adopted by the Society, charged a member of the Fruit Committee with irregular and 

 improjier comluct in procuring tor himselt such "award, and formally censured him therefor; 



And, u/icreas, the said Keport is also considered as indirectly censuring all the members of the said Fruit Com- 

 mittee; ^ 



And, ichereas, the Messrs, Ilovey, as well as all the members of the said I'ruit Committee, deny that their conduct 

 has been in any respect irregular or improper, or in any manner contrary to the usages of the Society ; 



And, whereds, the Society is desirous of avoiding even the appearance of injusliee to any of its members, and it is 

 believed that if any irregularity did occur, the recurrence thereof will be prevented by the action of the Society in ILe 

 present case, and by the enacting of suitable by-laws; therefore, 



liesolved. That the resolutions hereinbefore named, passed on the 27th day of May last, be and the same are here- 

 by resci7id^d. 



Resolved, That the foregoing preamble and resolutions be entered at length on the records of the Society. 



Unanimously adopted. 



Mr. Rand then moved that the words, "Rescinded, October 22, 1854," be written on the mar- 

 gin of the record, against the Report of the Select Committee, and the vote of censure. This 

 was unanimotish/ adopted. 



The meeting was one of the largest ever coayened in the Society's room. 



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