24 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



O. B. Hadwen, Chairman of the Committee on Discussion, ex- 

 pressed the gratification of the Committee at the attendance at this 

 first meeting of the season, and announced that on the next Satur- 

 day, Col. Henry W. "Wilson would read a paper on " Mulching." 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday. January 10, 1885. 

 An adjourned meeting of the Society- was holden at 11 o'clock, 

 the President, John' B. Moore, in the chair. 



David Nevins, of Framingham, was proposed by Hon. Marshall 

 P. Wilder as a Life Member of the Society. 



The Annual Report of the Committee on Gardens was read by 

 John G. Barker, Chairman, accepted, and referred to the Committee 

 on Publication. 



The Secretary read a letter from M. Ch. Joh". of Paris, a Corre- 

 sponding Member of the Society, inviting contribntions from 

 the members of the Society to an International Exposition of 

 Horticultural Products, at Paris, May 20-31, of which M. Joly 

 is president. The subject was referred to the Executive Com- 

 mittee. 



The Secretary' also read a letter from the New England Meteor- 

 ological Society asking the cooperation of horticulturists and others 

 in the work of establishing a system of simple meteorological 

 observations throughout the New England States. 



Adjourned to Saturday, January 17. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Some Coxsideratioxs Regarding the Practice axd Utility of 



mulchixg. 



By Col. Henry W. Wilsox, Boston. 



Some months since, at a general discussion of agricultural 

 matters, a gentleman of experience and reputation as a cultivator 



