82 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Mrs. C. N. S. Horner, and Mrs. E. M. Gill, be a Special Com- 

 mittee to fix and award prizes for Window Gardening, agreeably 

 to the above communication, and to conduct all the business neces- 

 sary to insure the success of the object therein proposed. 



The polls for the election of a member of the Flower Committee 

 were closed at twenty-five minutes before twelve, and the Commit- 

 tee to receive and count the votes reported as follows : 



Whole number of votes, 104 



Henry Ross had 75 



and was declared elected a member of the Flower Committee. 

 Meeting dissolved. 



It was intended to hold a meeting for the discussion of Rose 

 Culture at the close of the business meeting, but so much time hav- 

 ing been consumed by the unusual amount of business, and the 

 principal rose-growers being more interested in the beautiful exhi- 

 bition in the Hall than in the discussion, it was postponed until the 

 next Saturda3\ 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Saturday, March 9, 1878. 



A meeting for discussion was holden at 11 o'clock, President 

 Gray in the chair. Subject, Rose Culture. 



Wilham C. Strong alluded to the remarks made by James 

 Comley at the previous meeting concerning stocks for roses, and 

 especially the Prince's stock. These remarks suggested an inquiry 

 as to the cause of the diseased condition of the Marechal Niel rose, 

 when budded on other stocks, particularly the Manetti, the wood 

 swelling and cracking. This raised the question as to the proper 

 stock for that rose, and opened the whole subject of the mutual 

 influence of the stock and graft. The influence of the graft on the 

 stock is plainly shown in the abutilon. The speaker had budded 

 the Abutilon vexillarium pictum on the plain type, and the bud so 

 inoculated the stock that a shoot springing out several feet below 

 the graft was variegated, though showing the type of the large 



