do Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Dec. 20. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day — the 

 President in the chair. 



Mr. Cabot, from the Committee appointed for that purpose, reported that 

 a medal of the value of $50 be presented to Capt. Lovett for the produc- 

 tion of the Christiana Melon. 



The President, Treasurer, and Finance Committee were chosen a Com- 

 mittee to settle with the Mount Auburn Cemetery. 



Messrs. Lovett, Breck, and Haggerston were appointed to nominate a 

 Committee of Arrangements for 1852. Adjourned one week, to Dec. 27. 



Dec. 27. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day. The 

 President in the chair. 



The several Committees on Gardens, Fruits, Flowers and Vegetables 

 made their reports, which will be found below. 



The Committee for establishing premiums for 1852, submitted a schedule 

 of prizes, which was placed in the hands of the Executive Committee for 

 approval. 



A package of books was received from M. Vattemare, which was placed 

 in the hands of the Library Committee. Meeting dissolved. i 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON GARDENS. 



The Committee on Gardens herewith submit their Report for 1851. The 

 Committee regret that the prizes offered by the Society in this department 

 of its administration seem to excite but little interest. The whole number 

 of fruit, flower and vegetable gardens entered with the Committee the past 

 year was but five ; while for the prizes offered for greenhouses and graper- 

 ies not a single competitor appeared. These prizes have, however, been 

 but recently established, and although none of the effects intended to be pro- 

 duced thereby, are as yet apparent, yet with the hope, that as these offer- 

 ings become more generally known and better appreciated, more interest in 

 them will be excited, and the ends designed in their establishment be in 

 some measure attained, a discontinuance of them would not, in the opinion 

 of your Committee, be advisable. Although perhaps not coming strictly 

 within the requisitions intended to be exacted, yet desiring to cherish the 

 interest manifested in those objects intended to be promoted by the Society, 

 your Committee have awarded the following prizes to the persons named. 

 Competitors should remember that the Committee are precluded by the 

 rules from visiting any gardens, greenhouses, &,c., unless notice is given to 

 the chairman, previous to May 1st, of the intentionof the owner thereof to 

 be a candidate for the prizes offered. 



Your Committed have awarded — 

 For the most economically managed, best cultivated, and most 



neatly kept fruit garden, through the season, to Hovey & Co. $25 00 



For the 2d best, to William R. Austin, 15 00 



For the most economically managed, best cultivated, and most 



neatly kept flower garden, through the season, to J. Mann, Jr. 20 00 

 And they have awarded no other prizes. 



For the Committee, Joseph S. Cabot, Chairman. 



