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Arrangements, Committee on Gardens, and Committee on Vegeta- 

 bles, to which they had respectively been elected. 



Voted, That a committee of three be appointed to nominate 

 candidates to fill the vacancies in the committees for the year 1879, 

 caused b}- these declinations. The Chair appointed as that Com- 

 mittee, CM. Hovey, James Comley, and C. N. Brackett. 



Voted, That the reading of the Report of the Committee on 

 Fruits be postponed for one week. 



Adjourned to Saturda}^, December 14. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, December 14, 1878. 



A meeting of the Society was holden to-da}^, agreeably to ad- 

 journment, Vice President CO. Whitmore in the chair. 



John B. Moore, Chairman of the Committee on Fruits, read the 

 Annual Report of that Committee. 



It was moved by N. B. White, and seconded by J. W. Talbot, 

 that the portion of the Report of the Fruit Committee relating to 

 hybrid grapes, be stricken out. After discussion hj Messrs. White, 

 Moore, Talbot, J. C Hovey, B. G. Smith, and James Cruick- 

 shanks, the motion was negatived. 



The Report of the Fruit Committee was then accepted and 

 referred to the Committee on Publication. 



Robert Manning read his Annual Report as Secretary, which 

 was accepted and referred to the Committee on Publication. 



The Committee appointed at the last meeting to nominate candi- 

 dates for the vacancies in the Standing Committees of the Society 

 for the year 1879, made a report which was accepted, and, agree- 

 ably thereto, John G. Barker was elected to fill the vacancy in the 

 Committee on Gardens ; John Fillebrown was elected to fill the 

 vacancy in the Committee on Vegetables ; and E. W. Wood was 

 elected to fill the vacancy' in the Committee of Arrangements. 



On motion of John B. Moore it was Voted, That the Fruit Com- 



