8 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY 



had presented a bill to the Legislature forbidding the sale and 

 transportation of the flowers. It was voted that the bill as pro- 

 posed by the President be approved and that the President and 

 Messrs. Sargent, Allen, Saltonstall, and Roland be requested to 

 appear in support of the same before the appropriate committee 

 of the Legislature; also that a notice be sent to other horticultural 

 societies and garden clubs ad\asing them of the proposed bill and 

 requesting their support of this legislation. 



The following resolution was adopted: Resolved that the Trus- 

 tees of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society favor close cooper- 

 ation between that Society and the Garden Clubs of America in 

 furtherance of the horticultural interests of this State; and the 

 officers of the Society are authorized, under the direction of the 

 Executive Committee, to take such action as will be helpful in 

 carrying out this resolution. 



On motion of Professor Sargent it was voted to offer the Society's 

 Gold Medal to four of the Garden Clubs of this State, namely, the 

 Lenox, Richmond, North Shore, and Chestnut Hill Clubs, to be 

 awarded by them during the current year. 



An appropriation of $400.00 was voted for the library for the 

 current year. 



May 8. Several communications were read expressing enthusi- 

 astic appreciation of the Wild Flower and Wild Fern Exhibition 

 now being held in the hall. 



The committee on the award of the George Robert White Medal 

 of Honor for the current j^ear reported through its chairman, Pro- 

 fessor Sargent, the following motion : 



Voted.^ — That in recognition of his conspicuous service to Horti- 

 culture by the establishment in Beverly, Massachusetts, of the 

 greatest collection of exotic orchids the New World has j'et seen; 

 by his skilful and energetic management of the affairs of the 

 Society; and by his labors to increase the love, protection and cul- 

 tivation of New England wild flowers and ferns through his remark- 

 able exhibition in Boston of these plants in the spring of 1921 and 

 1922, the George Robert White Medal, given only to those men or 

 women who in recent years have done the most for Horticulture, be 

 awarded by the Trustees of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society to their President, x\lbert C. Burrage. The motion of Pro- 



