REPORTS OF COMMITTEES, ETC. 11 



James Cruickslianks spoke of visiting Mr. Rivers and seeing liis 

 extensive nurseries, and meeting with- kindness and attention more 

 than could be expected or expressed. 



President Parkman said that his first introduction to a knowledge 

 of the rose was through Mr. Rivers' book, in which he had recorded 

 his ample experience in the culture of that flower. The book is 

 full of the honest enthusiasm of his character, which here found 

 expression in regard to the rose. At the time it was written, Mr. 

 Rivers was more prominent in rose culture than any other English- 

 man, and with its progress he stood at least equal to any one who 

 has written on the subject. He afterwards wrote on orchard-houses, 

 and a passage in the preface to his work on this subject, in which 

 he dedicated the profits resulting from it to the repair of the parish 

 church in which his family had worshipped for generations, showed 

 the quality of the man. Although the speaker had no personal 

 acquaintance with Mr. Rivers he felt, in common with all horticul- 

 turists, that we had lost one of our leaders. 



The resolutions were seconded by Robert Manning, and were 

 unanimously passed. 



W. C. Strong, Chairman of the Committee on Publication and 

 Discussion, read the Annual Report of that Committee. 



Waldo O. Ross, Chairman of the Library Committee, read the 

 Annual Report of that Committee. 



J. H. Woodford, Chairman of the Garden Committee, read the 

 Annual Report of that Committee. 



Benjamin G. Smith, of the Committee on Fruits, read the Annual 

 Report of that Committee. 



The above mentioned reports were severally accepted and 

 referred to the Committee on Publication. 



Hervey Davis, Chau-man of the Frait Committee, called the 

 attention of the Society to the recommendation in the report of that 

 Committee, that the Prospective Prize of sixty dollars, for the best 

 Seedhng Hardy Grape, be awarded to John B. Moore, for the 

 Moore's Early. 



It was moved by John G. Barker and seconded by James 

 Cruickshanks, that the recommendation of the Fruit Committee be 

 approved by the Society. 



N. B. White moved that the award be postponed for one year. 



The vote passed January 13, 1877, relative to Prospective Prizes, 



