PROCEEDINGS. 15 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, February 6, 1847. 

 President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair. 



John Washburn, Jr., of Plymouth, was proposed for membership by Ebenezer Wight. 

 A report upon a package of Seeds, received from Professor Fischer, of St. Petersburg, by 

 John Lewis Russell, M. D., Professor of Botany, &c., to the IMassachusetts Horticultural 

 Societ)', was read, and it was 



Voted, To place the Report in the hands of the Committee of Publication, and that the 

 Seed be placed in the hands of Professor Asa Gray, of Cambridge, with the request to 

 report upon anything new or valuable. 



An interesting letter from Wjlliam D. Brinckle, M. D., of Philadelphia, a Corresponding 

 member of the Society, in regard to the origin and history of the Tyson Pear, was received, 

 and it was 



Voted, That the Communication of Dr. Brinckle, be referred to the Committee of Publi- 

 cation. 



An order was received from the Hon. Theodore Lyman, upon the Publishers of Professor 

 Gray's Chloris Boreali-Americana, for the delivery of a copy of that work, to the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, as fast as published, whereupon it was 



Voted, That the thanks of the Society be presented to the Hon. Theodore Lyman, for 

 his very liberal present of a copy of Professor Gray's Chloris Boreali-Americana, a new 

 and beautiful work to be published in several volumes, and that the Recording Secretary 

 be requested to communicate this vote to Mr. Lyman. 



The Finance Committee submitted the following Report : — 



The Finance Committee, in conformity with a vote passed the 9lh of January, 1847, 

 directing them to invest at their discretion, twentyfive hundred dollai-s, from the fund 

 received by the Society from the Treasurer of Mount Auburn, beg leave to Report, 



That they have bought twentytwo Shares of the Boston and Worcester Railroad Stock, 

 at one hundred and eleven dollars seventyfive cents per Share, say S2,458 50, that number 

 of Shares coming the nearest to the amount required to be invested. The Stock has been 

 bought at the lowest point, and has every appearance of fully sustaining present prices for 

 years to come, and of dividing four per cent dividends semi-annually. 

 All which is respectfully submitted. 



(Signed,) JOSIAH STICKNEY, Chairman. 



The Certificates of twentytwo Shares in the Stock of the Boston and Worcester Railroad 

 were delivered by the Chairman of the Finance Committee to the Treasurer. 



George C. Crowninshield and Francis Thieler were elected Subscription members of 

 the Society. 



EXHIBITIONS. 



Saturd.^y, February 13, 1847. 

 EXHIBITION OF FLOWERS. 

 The President of the Society, Marshall P. Wilder, exhibited a magnificent group of 

 Camellias, embracing the following twenty varieties, viz. : Albertii, Donkelaerii, Ochro 

 leuca, Tricolor, Chandlerii, Palmer's Perfection, Fimbriata, Imbricata, Floyii, Gillesii, 

 Conspicua, Evimia, Fordii, William IV., Eclipse, Duchesse d'Orleans, Alba plena, 

 Elegans, Prattii, and Colvillii. Also, a superb specimen of Acacia spectabilis. For the 

 green-house, this species is one of the most desirable of this very extensive family, and 

 however beautiful many of them are, spectabilis stands unrivalled, not only for the graceful 



