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MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETINGS. 



Sept 16— The President, M. P. Wilder, Esq . in the chair. 



A delegation to attend the annual exiiibitioii of the Pennsj 1- 

 vaiiia Horticultural Society, was appointed, consisting of 

 jMessrs. Cheever Newhall, Joseph Breck, and E. M. Rich- 

 ards. 



Robert Manning, was elected a Life Member, and his 

 fee remitted him, on account of his valuable services as a po- 

 rn ologist. 



Sept 23 — The President in the chair. A letter was read by 

 the President, from Josiah Beadlee, Esq., enclosing his check 

 for $.500 to be added to his former donation of a like amount, 

 as a permanent fund for premiums on Fruits and Flowers. 



A letter was also read t'rom Samuel Appleton, Esq., ac- 

 companied with his cr.eck of $200, to he appropriated for the 

 purchase of moral and icientific books for the Society's Libra- 

 ry- 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Messrs. Bradlee 

 and Appleton, to be communicated by the Corresponding Sec- 

 retary. 



The thanks of the Society were also voted to the various 

 committees who had charge of the annual exhibition and fes- 

 tival—to the Chief Marshal and his effective aids— to the com- 

 mittees to provide accommodatioi.s for the various committees 

 during the exhibition — and to the ladies and gentlemen, wiio 

 kindly favored the festival with music and song. 



Josiah Lovett2d, David Haggerston and E. M Richards, 

 were appointed a committee to nominate a list of officers for 

 the ensuing year, to be reported at next meeting 



Gustas Evarts, Watertown, and Wm. P. Gibbs, Lexing- 

 ton, were elected members. 



Sept. 30 — The President in the chair. The committee on 

 nominations reported that they had un'animously agreed on a 

 ticket, but since coming together to-day, they had learned that 

 the gentleman (Hon B. V. French,) who had received the 

 nomination lor President, would not serve in that capacity if 

 elected. 



The Hon. Mr. French, Vice President, being present, slat- 

 ted that he should decline the office if elected, and that, though 

 he had been of the Society from its foundation, and with will- 

 ing heart and hand, had been prompt in aid of the cause of 

 Horticulture, and the Society's interests, still he was not am- 

 bitious of its honors, but should continue hi.s efforts for the 

 advancement of Horticulture as heretofore. Mr. F. express- 

 ed a warm attachment lor its members, who had so long gone 

 hand and hand with him, in a cause for which he felt so deep 

 an interest, and they might rely on his readiness to serve 

 them, as if occupying the highest honor in their gift. 



It was therefore voteil that the committee of nominations 

 have further time, and that they be requested to have their list 

 placed on the Society's table as earl) as Thursday next. 



Oct. 7 — The annual meeting was held this day — the Presi- 

 dent in the chair. The Society proceeded to the election of 

 officers to serve for the year IS-IO. Mes.srs. Ebenezer Wight 

 and John Fisk Allen, being appointed tellers 



The polls were kept open for half an hour, after which the 

 tellers reported that the list of officers recommended by the 

 tiominating committee, had been elected, as follows : 



President— San,uel Walker. 



Vice Presidents — Benjamin V. French, Cheever Newhall, 

 Edward M. Richards, Joseph S Cabot. 



Treasurer — F. W. Macondry. 



Corresponding Secretary — Eben Wight 



Recording Secretary—^. C. R. Walker. 



Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology — John Lewis 

 Russel, A M. 



Professor of Entomology — T. W. Harris, M. D. 



Professor of Horticultural Chemistry— E. N. Horsford. 



Committee on Fruits — F. W. Macondry, Chairman. P. B 

 Hovey, Jr., J. S. Cabot, Eben Wight, Josiah Lovett, Joseph 

 Breck, Robert Manning. 



Cofnmittee on Plants and Flowers — David Haggerston, Ch'n, 

 Alex. McLellan, Wm. B. Richards, E. A Story, John Cad- 

 ness, Lyman Winship, E. C R. Walker. 



Committ-e on Vegetables— A. D. Williams, Jr., Ch'n, Wm. 

 B. Kingsbury, James Nugent, Azell Bowditch, Aaron D. 

 Weld, S. W Cole, George Pierce 



Committee on Library— Charles M. Hovey, Ch'n, Henry W. 

 Diitton, R. M. Copelaiid, Joseph Breck, Wm B Richards. 



Committee on Synonyms of Fruit — M. P. Wilder, Ch'n, 

 CM Hovey, J. S. Cabot, Robert Manning, Ch'n of the Fruit 

 Committee. 



Executive Cotntnittee — The President, Chairman, the Trea- 

 surer, M P. Wilder, E. M. Richards, Otis Johnson. 



Committee for establishing Premiums — The Cli'n of Com- 

 mittee on Fruits, Chairman, the Chairman of Committee on 

 F'lowers, the Chairman of Committee on Vegetables, C. M. 

 Hovey, Josiah Lovett, 2d. 



Finance Conmittee—M. P. Wilder, Chairman, Josiah Stick - 

 ney, Otis Johnson. 



Committee on Publication — Eben Wight, Chairman, C. K. 

 DiUawuy. Josiah Lovett, 2d, the Recording Secretary, and 

 the Chairmen of the Committees on Fruits, Flowers and Veg- 

 ab les. 



Cheever Newhall, Esq , as Chairman of the Committee on 

 Medals, submitted a Report, accompanied with specimens 

 in Bronze, from the die of the Appleton Gold Medal, and 

 it was voted, that the Report of the Committee on Medals be 

 accepted, and one of the Bronze Medals presented to each of 

 the Committee and the President of the Society. 



Wm Hill, South Boston, and Charles F. Hendee, Rox- 

 bury, were elected members. 



Oct. 24— Tiie President in the chair. A letter was read 

 from Edmund Bartlett, Esq., accompanied with seeds of 

 a Tree from Vancouver's Island, and it was voted, that the 

 thanks of the Society be presented to Mr. Bartlett, and the 

 seed placed in the hands of the Flower Committee, to dispose 

 of to such gentlemen as may desire to cultivate them. 



The following gentlemen were elected members of the So- 

 ciety: 



Samuel A. Appleton, Jona. Ellis. Francis Boyd, and Henry 

 L. Daggett, Boston ; and George Peirce., West Cambridge. 

 E C. R. WALKER, 



Recording Sec'y. 



WEEKLY EXHIBITION. 



We have the reports of the weekly exhibition, of Sept. 9tln 

 the details of which are necessarily omitted 



Among the novelties, we notice the following : 



Mr. S. Walker exhibited a beautiful pure white seedling 

 Phlox, dense headed— also a seedling from P. tardifiora— an 

 improvement upon it. 



Mr. Wilder, the President, exhibited the following new 

 Pears— Triomphe de Gand, Beurre Goubalt, Blanquet. An- 

 asterque, (decidly poor,) Souvrain d'Ete, (very fine,) Poire 

 d'Esselle, (poor,) Colmar D'Ete, Dunmore. (good). 



These pears were tested in committee with a view to dis- 

 .aemination; and, with the exception of one or two varieties, 

 did not leave a very lavorable impression. 



