92 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Henry W. Putnam, of Salem, 

 Samuel W. Twombly, of Winchester, 

 D. L. MiLLiKEN, of Maplewood, 

 James Lawrence, of Groton, 



being nominated to the Society by the Executive Committee, were 

 elected to membership. 



The polls for the election of Recording Secretary were closed at 

 thirty-five minutes past eleven. 



The Chair appointed C. M. Hovey, J. W. Manning, and William 

 H. Spooner a committee to count the votes. The Committee 

 reported the 



Whole number of votes, . . 41 



Robert Manning had ... 40 

 and was elected. 



Marshall P. Wilder, Chairman of the Committee on the Centen- 

 nial Exhibition, reported that he had been in correspondence with 

 the authorities of the exhibition, to establish the number or quan- 

 tity of specimens which should be exhibited of the different kinds 

 of fruit, and that until this point was fixed, which he trusted would 

 be soon, the Committee would be unable to issue their circular 

 inviting contributions. 



Meeting dissolved. 



No separate meeting for discussion was formally organized, but 

 while waiting for the closing of the polls Charles M. Hovey exhib- 

 ited some seedling azaleas and made some remarks in continua- 

 tion of the subject discussed the previous week. One of the aza- 

 leas was a seedling six inches high and just two years old, showing 

 a single flower, while a smaller plant of Bijou de Paris was raised 

 from a cutting, and bore a flower. Mr. Hovey said that he com- 

 menced raising seedling azaleas in 1835, and since then had raised 

 them m large numbers, and that as a rule seedlings did not flower 

 near so early as grafts or cuttings. These azaleas were of the 

 Glechtanesii or lateritia t^'pe ; while those shown by Mr. Wilder, 

 the previous week, were of the Fhoenicea type. We can see no 

 reason why a seedling plant should not come up and bloom imme- 

 diately, but experience shows us that it must arrive at the age of 

 puberty, and that it requires the formation or storing up of a 

 peculiar kind of sap. 



