124 IVIASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTUEAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, December 7, 1878, 



An adjourned meeting of the Soclet}' was holden at 11 o'clock, 

 Vice President CO, Wiiitmore in the chair, 



W. C. Strong, Chairman of the Committee on Publication and 

 Discussion, read the Annual Report of that Committee, which was 

 accepted and referred to the Committee on Publication. Mr. Strong, 

 also, in replj' to an inquirj^, stated the, plans of the Committee in 

 regard to meetings for discussion during the coming season, 



Mrs, H, L, T, Wolcott, Secretary of the Special Committee on 

 "Window Gardening, read the Report of that Committee, which was 

 accepted and referred to the Committee on Publication. 



On motion of W. C. Strong it was Voted, That the thanks of the 

 Societ}^ be presented to Mrs. E. Tisdale Talbot, Rev, Rufus Ellis, 

 Rev. George J. Prescott, and the other ladies and gentlemen who 

 have co-operated with the Societ}^ in the promotion of Window 

 Gardening, for the care with which they have endeavored to interest 

 the children in Boston and vicinity, in the culture of plants. 



Joseph H. Woodford, Chairman of the Committee on Gardens, 

 read the Annual Report of that Committee. 



Waldo O. Ross, Chairman of the Library Committee, read the 

 Annual Report of that Committee. 



William H. Spooner, Chairman of the Committee on Plants and 

 Flowers, read the Annual Report of that Committee. 



Charles N. Brackett, Chairman of the Committee on Vegetables, 

 read the Annual Report of that Committee. 



These reports were severally accepted and referred to the Com- 

 mittee on Publication. 



The Chairman of the meeting reported from the Executive Com- 

 mittee the list of Prizes to be offered for the year 1879, with the 

 approval of that Committee, Also, from the same Committee, a 

 recommendation that the Society appropriate tliree hundred dollars 

 for the expenses of the Committee of Arrangements for the year 

 1879, 



Letters were presented from Waldo 0, Ross, Charles S, Sargent, 

 and Daniel T, Curtis, declining the positions on the Committee of 



