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Mr. C. M. Hovey, Chairman of the Library Committee, submitted the Annual Report, 

 wliich was accepted and passed to the Executive Committee to fill the blank appropriation 

 asked for, with such a sum as the finances of the Society will admit of. 



The Executive Committee reported the List of Premiums ofTered for the year 1848, with 

 a revised Code of Regulations, which was accepted. 



Ordered^ That the List of Premiums awarded for 1847, and those offered for 1848, be 

 printed and laid upon the table for distribution at the next meeting. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, April 1, 1848. 



President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair. 



C. W. Dabney, Esq., of Fayal, presented the Society with a small quantity of Poitugal 

 Onion seed, and the thanks of the Society were voted for the same. 



The Finance Committee reported, that in accordance with a vote of the Society, they 

 had purchased fifteen shares of the Old Colony Railroad, at ninetythree dollars and twenty- 

 five cents per share, amounting to one thousand three hundred and ninetyeight dollars and 

 seventyfive cents, and the same had been paid by the Treasurer. The Committee also 

 reported, that the Society's proportion of new stock in the Worcester Railroad would require 

 the payment of several hundred dollars, and, in consequence of this, only the above amount 

 had now been invested. 



They likewise reported, that the Store had been re-leased to the present occupant, for 

 two years, upon the same terms as before. 



The President and Recording Secretary were authorized to procure Tickets for the use 

 of the members, and for the purpose of sale for admission to the Hall, upon the same terms 

 as in previous ^ears. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, June 3, 1848. 



President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair. 



A communication was received from Edward Bartlett, Esq., of Newburyport, accom- 

 panied with seed of the Potatoe as found indigenous in Peru. 



Votedj That the thanks of the Society be presented to Edward Bartlett, Esq., and the 

 seed placed in the hands of the Committee on Vegetables, for distribution among the 

 Society's members. 



The subject of holding a Festival, at the close of the present season, having been 

 discussed, it was 



Voted, That the whole subject be referred to the Committee of Arrangements, with 

 instructions to report at the next meeting. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, June 17, 1848, 

 President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair, 



Several copies of the Report of the Committee of the Cincinnati Horticultural Society, 

 on the Strawberry, were received through A. H. Ernst, Esq. 



Voted, That the thanks of the Society be presented to the Cincinnati Horticultural Society. 



