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A letter from F. R. Elliott, Cleveland, Ohio, presenting the Society with seven new native 

 varieties of Cherry trees, was received. 



The thanks of the Society were voted to Mr. Elliott, and the trees, for the Society's use, 

 were placed under the care of the President. 



Copies of the twentyfirst Annual Fair of the American Institute, were laid on the table 

 for distribution. The thanks of the Society, for the same, were voted. 



BUSINESSMEETING. 



Saturday, December 23, 1848. 



President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair. 



The Committee of Publication presented their report, by which it appeared there were 

 some bills unpaid — whereupon it was 



Voted, That the Treasurer be authorized to pay all outstanding bills, presented by the 

 Committee. 



A Committee, consisting of the President and Treasurer, J. Stickney, F. W. Macondray, 

 and Otis Johnson, was appointed to settle with the Treasurer of Mount Auburn Cemetery. 



The Corresponding Secretary was requested to forward copies of the Proceedings of the 

 Twentieth Annual Exhibition of the Society, to the several Horticultural Societies in the 

 country. 



The Chairman of the Committee on Flowers and Vegetables presented their reports, 

 on awarding premiums for 1848, which were accepted, and the thanks of the Society voted 

 to the Committee for their not having exceeded the appropriation. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, January 6, 1849. 



President, Marshall P. Wilder, in the Chair.. 



After taking the Chair the President introduced Mr. Walker, the President elect, in the 

 following manner': — 

 Gentlemen of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society — 



The duty of introducing ray successor, your President elect, devolves on me under very- 

 happy auspices — your suffrages have fallen on a man, who is worthy of the office, and 

 well qualified for it — on one who has served the Society, in various capacities, with fidelity 

 and ability, and whom you now reward with the highest honor in your gift. 



Gentlemen, — I rejoice with you in this event, and in the prosperous condition of our 

 Association ; in the friendship and unanimity that prevails among us, and especially in an 

 opportunity, before taking final leave of the Chair, to thank you once more, most sincerely, 

 for the distinction which you have bestowed on me — a distinction for which, at my first 

 election, I had not presumed to hope, but which, having been so often conferred, and by 

 those whose approbation I highly appreciate, I shall ever regard as above any earthly 

 preferment. 



During ray administration, it has been my desire and endeavor to discharge the duties 

 of my office, with impartiality, and with a view to the best interests of the Society. How 

 well I have succeeded, I leave for others to judge ; but whatever success may have 

 attended these eflforts, for you, my official associates, with whom I have had such long and 

 pleasant intercourse, and from whom 1 have received uniform and cordial support, I shall 

 ever entertain an affection next to that for family and home. 



