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Mr. Farquhar referred to the need of a new diploma of member- 

 ship and it was voted to appoint him and the Secretary a committee 

 to report on the subject at the next meeting. 



It was further voted to offer one Society's Gold Medal and three 

 Silver Medals at the exhibition of the Society of American Florists 

 to be held in New York in April, 1913. 



The following named persons were elected to membership in the 

 Society : 



John H. Hardy, Jr., Littleton, proposed by Wilfrid Wheeler. 



Nicholas F. McCarthy, Boston, proposed by J. K. M. L. Far- 

 quhar. 



William Percival Edgar, Jamaica Plain, proposed by J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar. 



Miss Julia H. Bradley, Roxbury, proposed by J. K. M. L. 

 Farquhar. 



Charles H. Bradley, Boston, proposed by C. W. Parker. 



Mrs. Henry S. Hunnewell, Boston, proposed by C. S. Sargent. 



Mrs. Daniel Goodwin, East Greenwich, R. I., proposed by C. S. 

 Sargent. 



Mrs. David S. Greenough, Jamaica Plain, proposed by C. H. 

 Swan. 



Edwin Jenkins, Lenox, proposed by James Wheeler. 



Frederic Heeremans, Lenox, proposed by James Wheeler. 



L. Merton Gage, Groton, proposed by W. P. Rich. 



John Kirkegaard, Bedford, proposed by A. F. Barney. 



William Reiff, Boston, proposed by A. E. Horton. 



Monroe Ames, Lexington, proposed by A. E. Horton. 



December 7. Mr. Farquhar, for the special committee on pro- 

 curing a new plate for the membership diploma of the Society, 

 reported that the former copper plate, used for many years, could 

 not be found and that it was probably destroyed in the great fire 

 of 1872. 



He stated that recent copies of the diploma had been reproduced 

 by the hcliotype process, but additional copies, which will have to 

 be supplied in the course of a year or two, could not be satisfac- 

 torily reprinted l)y this process. 



