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The Committee further stated, that they had, agreeable to instructions, 

 urged the Society's claim for its proportion of the amount, received i"or 

 single interments. 



Accepted, and the Committee discharged. 



Meeting of the Society, Janicary 2ith, 1846. 



The Annual ExhiHition was appointed to be held on Wednesday, Thurs- 

 day and Friday, the I6th, 17th, and 18th September, 1840. 



The following persons were chosen a Committee of Arrangements for 

 the year 1846 : — 



Henry W. Dutton, chairman; Joseph Breck, E. M. Richards, David 

 Haggerston, P. B. Hovey, jr., Josiah Lovitt, F. W. Macondry, Eben. 

 Wight, Otis Johnson, Alexander McLennan, William Quant, A. D. Wil- 

 liams, jr., Parker Barnes. 



Meeting of the Society, February 2lst, 1846. 



At a meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, on Saturday, 

 Feb. 14th, 1846, a vote was passed directing the Committee on Flowers to 

 take special notice of the fine Seedling Camellias, exhibited at that lime, by 

 Marshall P. Wilder, President of the Society. 



Agreeably to this vote, the Flower Committee submitted the following 

 report ; — 



The number of Seedling Camellias exhibited was five ; two of them 

 were of surpassing beauty and perfection. As the committee have had 

 the pleasure of often examining the extensive collection of the President, 

 as well as those of other gentlemen in the vicinity, embracing the most 

 perfect varieties known among amateurs, they feel themselves sufficiently 

 acquainted with this beautiful class of flowers, to judge the comparative 

 merits of the seedlings under consideration, and they have no hesitation 

 in pronouncing them as varieties of the very first order, and such as will 

 be difficult to surpass in this, or any other country. The production of 

 two such remarkable varieties, by one person, we believe unprecedented, 

 and will reflect much honor upon our President abroad, as well as upon 

 the Society of which he is the head. 



We therefore recommend that a gratuity be awarded to the Presi- 

 dent for these two superb American Camellias, and that it consist of a 



