PROCEEDINGS. 19 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, March 20, 1847. 



President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair. 



William D. Ticknor was proposed for membership by Samuel Walker. 



The Committee of Publication submitted the following Report : — 



The Committee of Publication of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, respectfully 

 represent, that they have accumulated sufficient matter to enable them to enter upon the 

 publication of a regular series of the Transactions of the Society, and therefore recommend, 

 unanimously, that the Transactions should be published with numerous colored engravings 

 and outlines of Fruits and Flowers, executed in the best possible manner, by the most 

 distinguished artists of the country, and more particularly of such Fruits and Flowers as 

 are oi native origin; and in accordance with a vote of the Society, submit the following, as 

 an outline of their plan and mode of publication. 



1st. That the work be entitled '' Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society," and that no pains or expense be spared to make it worthy both of the Society 

 and of the advanced and still advancing progress of Horticulture. 



2d. That the form shall be royal octavo, which size the Committee believe will afford 

 sufficient room for plates of any Fruits or Flowers that may be required. 



3d. That the work be stereotyped, and also the Proceedings of the Society, and bound 

 together in the period of its publication. 



4th. The Committee contemplate to publish the work Quarterly, or oftener if necessary, 

 and estimate the cost of one thousand copies of each number as follows : — 



For four thousand, more or less, splendid colored engravings, say - - SCOO 00 



Stereotyping, 70 00 



Printing, Paper, Wrappers, &c., 8000 



$750 00 



5th. To charge the members of the Society, seventyfive cents, and the public one dollar, 

 for each part, which, including the Publishers' commission, will be about the prime cost of 

 the work. 



The Committee would suggest, that the Society, at some future time, offer Premiums for 

 Essays on Horticultural Subjects, for the purpose of publishing with the Transactions of the 

 Society, and thereby render the work valuable to its members, and extremely useful to the 

 public. 



It will be seen by this plan and these estimates, that your Committee contemplate the 

 execution of the work in the very best style of excellence, believing that the sale of the 

 work executed in this manner, will pay all the expenses, yet if it be only just above 

 mediocrity, it may entail loss on the funds of the Society. 



Your Committee would further state, that for the present, and until the demand for the 

 work by the members of the Society and the public shall have been ascertained, that they 

 intend to publish only five hundred copies of the first and second numbers. To enable 

 them to do this, and prepare drawings, &c. for future numbers, it may require the sum of 

 one thousand dollars. After the first two parts are published it is expected that the sales 

 will furnish the means to publish the succeeding numbers — Therefore 



Voted, That the Committee of Publication be requested to draw up and publish a 

 Prospectus of the Transactions of the Society, in accordance with the above plan, and 

 proceed to print and publish said work at such periods as they may deem expedient, and 

 that they be, and hereby are, authorised to draw on the Treasurer of the Society for any 

 sum not exceeding one thousand dollars, to defray the expenses thereof. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, by order of the Committee. 



(Signed,) SAMUEL WALKER. 



