TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY. 



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President.— MarshaW P. Wilder. 



Vice Presidents. — Benjamin V. French, Jonathan Winship, Cheever New- 

 hall, E. M. Kichards. 



Treasurer. — Samuel Walker. 



Corresponding Secretary. — J. E. Teschemacher. 



jRecording Secretary. — 'Ehenezer Wight. 



Professor of Botany and Vegetable Physiology.— John Lewis Russell. 



Professor of Entomology. — T. W. Harris. 



Professor of Horticultural Chemistry. — S. L. Dana. 



SxANDiNe Committees. 



Committee on Fruits. — Samuel Walker, chairman ; P. B. Hovey, Otis 

 Johnson, Samuel Pond, J. Lovitt, 2d, Jonathan Winship, David Haggers- 

 ton, J. L. L. F. Warren, J. F. Allen, and Aaron D. Williams. 



Committee on Flowers. — Joseph Breck, chairman ; H. W. Dutton, Samuel 

 Sweetser, S. R. Johnson, Josiah Stickney, W. E. Carter, and Parker 

 Barnes. 



Committee on Vegetables. — J. A. Kenrick, chairman; W. B. Kingsbury, 

 J. C. Howard, Azel Bowditch, John Hill, J. H. Billings, and Samuel C. 

 Mann. 



Committee on Library. — C. M. Hovey, chairman; C. K. DiUaway, J. E. 

 Teschemacher, Eben Wight, R. M. Copeland, and F. G. Shaw. 



Committee on Synonyms of Fruits. — M. P. Wilder, chairman ; B. V. French, 

 Samuel Downer, and William Kenrick. 



Executive Committee.— '^l. P. Wilder, chairman; Enoch Bartlett, Augus- 

 tus Aspinwall, F. W. Macondry, and John J. Low. 



Finance Committee. — Elijah Vose, chairman ; Cheever Newhall, and 

 E. M. Richards. 



Meeting of the Society, November 25, 1844. 



Specimens of a seedling Pear, sent for exhibition from Messrs. Wilcomb 

 & King, Flushing, N. Y. 

 The following letter accompanied the fruit : — 



M. P. Wilder, President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society : 



Sir, — We send, by Harnden & Co's express, a box of pears ; if thee 

 should think proper to present them to the Horticultural Society, we would 

 thank thee to do so. It is a native of Flushing. It produces abundant 

 crops every year ; is in eating over four months,. — say from the tenth to 

 second month, (from October to February). It is not inclined to rot or 

 shrive], as is the case with some of our winter pears. We think it pos- 

 sesses as many good qualities as any late fruit we have seen ; but this we 

 leave to the better judgment of the Horticultural Society. The tree is of 



