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does to the various Agricultural Societies of the State, to aid in carrying forward tne 

 general purposes of the Society, but especially to enable the Society to prosecute with 

 vigor the publication of their new series of the Transactions of the Society, in which are 

 to be described and figured the Fruits and Flowers of New England, and particularly of 

 Massachusetts. 



A communication, accompanied with the Transactions of the Convention of Farmers, 

 held in New York, was received from the Hon. H. A. S. Dearborn. 



Voted, That the thanks of the Society be presented to the Hon. H. A. S. Dearborn. 



A description, and colored plates of two new native Pears, called the Haddington aird 

 Moyamensing, were received from William D. Brinckle, M. D., of Philadelphia, a Corre- 

 sponding member of the Society, and it was 



Voted, To place the same in the hands of the Committee of Publication. 



Voted, To appoint a committee to fix the days for the next Annual Exhibition of the 

 Society. 



Samuel Walker, E. M. Richards, and C. M. Hovey, were appointed that Committee. 



George B. Emerson was elected a Corresponding member, and John Washburn, Jr., of 

 Plymouth, a Subscription member. 



EXHIBITION OF FRUITS. 

 By the Hon. Asa Foot, of Williamstown, the following Apples : Twenty Ounce, (very 

 fine) ; Red Streak, and Vanderspiegel, both good apples, but not equal to the Twenty 

 Ounce. For the Committee, 



S. WALKER, Chairman. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, March 13, 1847. 



President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair. 



The Committee on the Library submitted the following Report : — 



The Committee on the Library having recently rearranged the Books, and published a 

 new Catalogue, which has been bomid up with the Transactions of the Society, respect- 

 fully beg leave to Report. 



For the last two or three years but little money has been appropriated for the purchase of 

 Books, and, in consequence, but few new works have been added to the Library. The 

 Committee had intended, on presenting their Annual Report, to have asked for an appro- 

 priation for the coming year, but in this they had been anticipated by a vote of the Society, 

 and the amount of three hundred dollars placed at their disposal, for the purchase of such 

 Books as may be selected from a list to be presented to the Society. Agreeably thereto, 

 your Committee would recommend the following works : — 



To complete sets already in the Library, the "Transactions of the London Horticultural 

 Society," up to the completion of their quarto publication, with a continuation of them in 

 octavo form — the first volume of which, in quarterly numbers, has just been completed. 



Loudon's Gardener's Magazine, to complete the work up to its discontinuance, about 

 fifteen vols. 



Noisette's Jardin Fruitier, in two volumes, with colored plates. 



Michaux Sylvia, to complete the work, three volumes. 



Paxton's Magazine of Botany, eleven volumes. 



Loudon's Rural Cemeteries, one volume. 



Loudon's Hortus Lignosus, one volume. 



Loudon's Encyclopedia of Trees, Shrubs, &c., one volume. 

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