4 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, June 3, 1876. 



An adjourned meeting of the Societ}^ was liolden at 1 1 o'clock, 

 President Paekman in the chair. 



The Committee to nominate a candidate to fill the vacancy in the 

 Committee on Gardens, presented tlie name of James Cruickshanks, 

 and he was unanimously elected. It was voted that the Committee 

 on Gardens have leave to elect a Chairman. 



The following named persons, having been recommended b}' the 

 Executive Committee were, on ballot, duly elected. 

 Fred W. Kelsey, of Waverly, N, Y. 



MaHLON D. S PAULDING, of BostOll. 



William Gray, 3d, of Boston. 

 Meeting dissolved. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, July 1, 1876. 



A duly notified stated meeting was holden at 11 o'clock, Presi- 

 dent Parkman in the chair. 



Hervey Davis, from the Committee on Gardens, announced that 

 that Committee had elected Joseph H. Woodford, Chairman. 



Charles M. Hovey offered the following resolutions : — 



The members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society having 

 learned with deep regret of the decease of Louis Van Houtte, of 

 Ghent, Belgium, the eminent horticulturist, and a Corresponding 

 Member of the Society : therefore. 



Resolved^ That in this event we recognize that overruling Power, 

 who lets not even a sparrow fall without his knowledge. 



Resolved^ That the death of M. Van Houtte has left a void in 

 the ranks of horticulturists, which it will be difficult to fill. 



Resolved, Tliat cultivators throughout the world recall with the 

 greatest pleasure the energetic efforts of M. Van Houtte in the 

 domain of horticulture ; that to his extensive knowledge of plants. 



