THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK 



Life 



Mrs. Anna Woerishoffer, Mrs. Geo. H. Richardson, Mrs. Chas. 

 W. Harkness, and James C. Parrish. 



Annual 



Mrs. Emerson Opdycke, Henry Gleason, Miss Eliza R. Green- 

 wood, Mrs. Arnold Hague, Mrs. H. L. R. Edgar, John W. Froth- 

 ingham, Miss Margaret Lawrence, W. S. Gordon, Miss I. M. Cam- 

 mann, Dudley D. Sicher, James MacMachan, Wm. F. Beller, L. 

 H. Somers, Miss Catherine L. Hamersley, L. Gordon Hamersley, 

 Mrs. Robert Huntington, Milton E. Erlanger, Mrs. Alfred A. 

 Whitman, Mrs. Herbert L. Satterlee, and Mrs. Russell Wellman 

 Moore. 



The secretary was instructed to cast an affirmative ballot for 

 their election. This was done and the persons declared elected 

 members of the society. 



The following resignation was accepted with regret : 



Miss Marianne Schurz. 

 The lecture announced for the day, " Some Phases of the Fruit 

 Industry in the Northwest," was then delivered by Mr. George 

 V. Nash. This was illustrated with lantern slides. 



George V. Nash, 



Secretary. 

 January 17, 1914 



A meeting of the society, accompanied by an exhibition, was 

 held on Saturday, January 17, 1914, at the American Museum of 

 Natural History, the president presiding at first, followed by 

 Mr. Southwick. 



The minutes of the meeting of December 13, 1913, were read 

 and approved. 



At the close of the business meeting, a lecture on " Sweet Peas " 

 was given by Mr. Edwin Jenkins. This was of exceeding inter- 

 est. The lecture follows : 



Sweet Peas 



I was led to choose the sweet pea as a subject for my discourse this 

 afternoon for several good and substantial reasons. First, because this 

 beautiful annual is perhaps more truly " everybody's flower " than even the 



