20 PROCEEDINGS. 



Voted, That the Report of the Committee of publication be accepted. 

 The President reported, verbally, that he had petitioned the Legislature for a grant of 

 six hundred dollars, as requested by the Society, 



EXHIBITION OF FLOWERS. 

 From Hovey and Co., a plant of Hybrid Moss Rose, var. Princess Adelaide. Also, the 

 following fine cut Roses : — Tea — Yellow, Nisida, Caroline, Bougere ; Hybrid Perpetual— 

 Madame Laffay, Mrs. Elliot, Indigo, Lilacee, Prudence RoBser: Bourbon — Gloire de Paris, 

 and Crimson Globe. 



From Parker Barnes, a fine seedling plant of Cineraria. Also, a fine plant of Cytisus 

 racemosus ; Rose Caroline Mignonne, and seedling Verbena, fine. 



For the Committee, JOSEPH BRECK, Chairman. 



EXHIBITION OF FRUITS. 

 By Samuel Downer, Esq., of Dorchester, a beautiful Apple, name unknown. The 

 Committee would like to see other specimens, another season. Also, a specimen of De 

 Neige, (Snow Apple.) 



By S. W. Cole, Apples : — Marston's Red Winter, Jewett's fine Red, and iEsopus Spit- 

 zenberg. 



For the Committee, S. WALKER, Chairman. 



EXHIBITION. 



Saturday, March 27, 1847. 

 EXHIBITION OF FLOWERS. 

 From the President of the Society, Marshall P. Wilder, Roses : — Tea — Princess Adelaide, 

 new : Bourbon — Souvenir de Malmaison, Edward Defosses, Madame Souchet, &c. Also, 

 a new Pseonia arborea, var. phoenicea, fl. pleno 3 a very desirable addition to this family of 

 plants, because of its peculiar roseate tint, resembling the best of the herbaceous kinds. 

 From Parker Barnes, a plant of Cineraria ; fine Roses, and Petunias. 



For the Committee, WILLIAM B. RICHARDS. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, April 3. 1847. 



President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair. 



The following gentlemen were proposed for Life membership : Jonathan Chapman, 

 Charles H. Mills, A. W. Thaxter, Jr., Thomas Lamb, J. Eliot Thayer, and J. W. Blodget, 

 all of Boston, by the President ; Isaac Babbitt, of Boston, by Joseph Breck. 



The following gentlemen were proposed for Subscription membership : Hezekiah S. 

 Chase, and Samuel May, of Boston, and Ralph Crocker, of Roxbury, by the President; 

 Ezra W. Sampson, of Dedham, by E. M. Richards ; Otis Arthur Gay, of Hingham, Louis 

 Decher, Adolphus Davis, and Edward Denny, of Boston, and Joseph Manning, of Medford, 

 by Ebenezer Wight; Henry P. Fairbanks, of Charlestown, by Joseph Breck; John Quant, 

 and John Thomas, of Brighton, by William Quant. 



A communication was received from Josiah Bradlee, Esq., of Boston, accompanied with 

 his check for five hundred dollars, for the purpose of being added to the Permanent Fimd 

 for Premiums on Fruits and Flowers, and it was 



