SPECIAL FUNDS 11 



SPECIAL FUNDS 



OF THE 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 

 January 1, 1922. 



The following is a list of the Special Funds of the Massachusetts Horti- 

 cultural Society the income of which is devoted to the purposes stated. 

 The date prefixed to each indicates the year in which the fund was estab- 

 lished. 



1845. Samuel Appleton Fund. $1000.00. 



To be invested as a permanent fund, the interest accruing therefrom 

 to be appropriated annually in premiums for improvements in the 

 arts to which the Society is devoted, in such manner as it shall 

 direct, for producing trees good for food, and flowers pleasant to 

 the sight. {Income applied in Schedule). 



1846. John A. Lowell Fund. $1000.00. 



To perfect the culture of flowers and fruits, and to diffuse through 

 our State knowledge and taste in useful and ornamental gardening. 

 {Income applied in Schedule). 



1846. Theodore Lyman Fund, No. 1. $1000.00. 



The proceeds of the investment appropriated in the shape of prizes 

 for the encouragement of the growth of such kind or kinds of fruit 

 as the government of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society may 

 deem it advisable to select. 

 {Income applied in Schedule) . 



1850. Theodore Lyman Fund, No. 2. $10,000. 



The whole net income of this sum to be appropriated for the en- 

 couragement of the growth of fruits, or vegetables, or plants, or of 

 all three, by the distribution of prizes, or premiums, or in the 

 publication of useful or valuable works on the general subject of 

 horticulture; or if it shall not be thought adyisable so to employ 

 the whole of the net income of the fund, then to appropriate a 

 part of it in some uniform and specific way for the promotion of 

 horticulture. 

 {Income applied in Schedule) . 



