ANNUAL MEETING FOR THE YEAR 1918. 



The Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 for the year 1918 was held at Horticultural Hall, Boston, on Satur- 

 day, November 16, at twelve o'clock noon, with President Salton- 

 stall in the Chair. 



The Secretary read the call for the meeting and the President 

 appointed Messrs. E. B. Wilder, J. A. Crosby, and W. P. Rich 

 a committee to receive, assort, and count the ballots, and to report 

 the number, and he declared the polls open until three o'clock. 



The record of the preceding meeting of the Society was read and 

 duly approved. 



President Saltonstall announced that the Board of Trustees 

 had made an appropriation of $3500 for prizes at the exhibitions 

 of the year 1919, to be expended mainly for the encouragement of 

 fruit and vegetable growing. 



Under the head of "Any Other Business" William N. Craig said 

 that it had been clearly proven by the experience of the present 

 year that the elimination of money prizes from the Schedule had 

 caused a decided lack of interest in the exhibitions and that they 

 had not been creditable to the Society. He thought the proposed 

 exclusion of flower shows from the Schedule of 1919 was unfortu- 

 nate and not for the best interest of the Society. 



While not making any formal motion he wished to suggest that 

 the Trustees consider the matter of an appropriation for exhibits 

 of flowers during the coming year. The President answered that 

 the suggestion of Mr. Craig would be presented at the next meeting 

 of the Board of Trustees. He then called Vice President Kidder 

 to the Chair and declared a recess until three o'clock. 



At three o'clock Mr. Kidder declared the polls closed and the 

 ballot committee reported through Mr. Wilder the result of the 

 voting as follows: 



Whole number of ballots cast 27. 



For President, William C. Endicott had 26. 



