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After considerable discussion the resolutions were adopted. 



Mr. Cutler offered the following resoultion which was adopted. 



Resolved, That all bills against the society shall be itemized; and when 

 presented by any delegate or committee appointed by the society, shall be ac- 

 companied by a written report. 



Mr. Harris offered the following resolution which was adopted 



Resolved, That the salaries of the officers of the society for the ensuing year 



be as follows: President, S25; Secretary, f 500; Treasurer, $25; .Librarian §>10,and 



that the actual expenses of the executive committee in attendance when 



called together shall be paid. 



It was moved and carried that there be appointed a committee 

 on revision of the constitution and by-laws to report at the next 

 annual meeting of the society, and this committee was further in- 

 structed to inquire into the workings of the director system as now 

 practiced in Iowa. 



President Elliot then appointed the following persons to serve 

 on this committee: A. W. Latham, Wm. Somerville and M. Cutler. 



The following report from the obituary committee was then 

 presented and adopted: 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON OBITUARY. 



IN MEMORIAM. 



The following distinguished horticulturists have departed this 

 life since the last annual meeting of this society, viz: E. P. Roe, 

 C. H. Greenman and Peter Henderson. 



REV. EDWARD PAYSON ROE. 



Rev. Edward Payson Roe, died suddenly, of neuralgia of the 

 heart, at Cornwall, N. Y., July 19th, 1889. He was widely known 

 as the preacher who turned nurseryman, and bloomed suddenly 

 into an author, whose works were widely read by the American 

 people, and caught the popular ear. Mr. Row was born at New 

 Windsor, N. Y., in 1838. In the late war of the rebellion, he was 

 chaplain of the Second New York, or Harris' light cavalry, and 

 was afterwards one of the chaplains at the Fortress Monroe hospi- 

 tals. At the close of the war he accepted a call to the Presbyterian 

 church of Highland Falls, N. Y. In the spring of 1874 he re- 

 moved to Cornwall, on the Hudson, where he began the somewhat 

 extensive cultivation of small fruits and plants, and soon became 

 widely known as a successful fruit grower, as well as novelist. 



PETER HENDERSON. 



Peter Henderson, so widely kDown as gardener, florist and seeds- 

 man, died at his home on Arlington avenue, Jersey City, N. J., 

 January 17th, 1890, from pneumonia, following the prevailing in- 



