THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



EXTRACTS FROM PROCEEDINGS OF 

 THE SOCIETY 



ANNUAL MEETING 



The Annual Meeting was held at the office of the Society, 598 Madison 

 Avenue, New York, on Saturday, May loth, 1924, at 3 :30 p. m. 

 The following persons were elected Directors for a three year term : 



Dr. N. L. Britton Mr. T. A. Havemeyer 



Mr. F. R. Newbold Mr. F. R. Pierson 



Mr. John Scheepers Mrs. Samuel Sloan 



Mr. Richardson Wright 



The recommendation by the Board of Directors for the creation of an 

 Executive Committee for the transaction of the business of the Society 

 when the Board was not in session was not approved. 



Treasurer's report was read and accepted and placed on file. 



Directors' report was read and accepted and placed on file. 



DIRECTORS' MEETING, NOVEMBER 14, 1923 

 (Mr. F. R. Pierson, Chairman of the Board, Presiding.) 



Elected as Annual Members: Mr. John Bister, Mr. John A. Murphy, 

 Mrs. Christian deVVaal, Miss J. C. Murray, Mrs. Frederick M. Godwin, 

 Mrs. James L. Hawley, Mrs. F. M. Warburg, Mr. C. R. Meltor, Mr. S. 

 Roger Mitchell, Mrs. Edgar F. Price, Miss Mary F. Bartlett, Miss M. 

 Elizabeth Lester, Mr. Arthur A. Chelmers, Mr. William B. Hardin, Mrs. 

 H. C. Hasbrouck, Mr. I. W. Drummond, Mrs. Alfred C. Bedford, Mrs. 

 Frederick S. Wheeler, Mrs. Carll Tucker, Mrs. Franklin Stowe, Mr. R. 

 Erbsloh, Miss Margaret Gilroy, Dr. H. M. Imboden, Dr. Marguerite T. 

 Lee, Mrs. Harriet Weil, Mr. Thomas W. Lamont, Mr. Leo Ritter, Mr. 

 Glenn F. McKinney, Mrs. R. G. Elbert, Mr. Julius Goshen, Mrs. Charles 

 A. Chapin, _Mr. Hobart J. Park, Mr. Noah W. Taussig, Mrs. William W. 

 Farnam, Miss E. Schwarz, Mrs. Frank C. Littleton, Mrs. Charles N. Tain- 

 tor, Mrs. E. C. Danforth, Mrs. H. C. Steers, Miss Estelle Whitfield, Miss 

 Ethel DuBois, Miss Eleanor M. Chalfant, Mrs. F. B. Crowninshield, Dr. 

 Lewis R. Morris, Mrs. W. C. Eustis, Mrs. E. Ward Olney, Mrs. Henry R. 

 Mallory, Mrs. -Caleb R. Stetson, Miss Alice R. Peters, Mr. J. Insley Blair, 

 Mr. Kenneth MacKenzie, Mrs. George M. Laughlin, Jr. 



Elected as Life Members: Miss Eva C. Putney, Mrs. Henry P. Tailer, 

 Mr. Bernhard Liesching. 



Elected as Sustaining Members: Mr. LeRoy Frost, Miss Marion R. 

 Carhart, Mr. Joseph P. Day, Mr. Schuyler L. Parsons. 



Deep regret was felt for the death of our member, Julius Roehrs, and the 

 Chairman appointed Mr. Atkins, Mr. Manda and Mr. Hendrickson a com- 

 mittee of three to draw up a suitable set of resolutions expressing this regret. 



The Board appointed one more member to the International Flower Show 

 Committee to represent the interests of this Society. Mr. W. A. Manda, 

 and the Secretary requested to ask a like appointment by the New York 

 Florists' Club. 



Mr. Newbold then read a letter from Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn, con- 

 gratulating the Society on the success of the Chrysanthemum Show and 

 offering a prize for the 1924 exhibition for the best Claudius Pernet Roses ; 



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