56 MASSACHrSETTS HOKUCCTLTUIIAI. SOCIEXr. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Satukpat, Jannary 24. 1S85. 

 Av : -i meeting of tbe Society was holden at 11 o'clock, 



the r. - JoHS B. MooKE. in the chair. 



Hon. Marshall P. TTilder annouDced the decease of the eminent 

 pomologist, Charles^ Downing, of Newburg, X.Y., a Corre- 

 sponding Member of the Society, whose life had been most useful, 

 and whose death was a gre^t loss to the cotmtry ; and moved that a 

 cc»mmittee be appointed to" prepare memorial resolutions. The 

 motion was carried, and the Chair appoiut^-d as that Committee 

 Mr, "Wilder. "William C. Strong, and Bobert Manning. 



Adjourned to Saturday, January 31. 



[Here follows, at Tol, 5, page 268, of the Society's Records, 

 i:. \ \.:e of January 28, 1885, the record, directed by vote of 

 *.-. " . V on the 4th of October, 18S4, to be made, of the enclos- 

 ing of the Society's land on Bromfield and Bosworth streets, b.it 

 it is not deemed necessary to print it. It is also recorded with 

 Suffolk Deeds, lib. IGM, fol. 146.] 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



HT.RBACEors Plakts ?\«. Bedpikg Plaxts. 



By Ed'Wjsjed L. Bkasd, Camlaidg-e. 



Probably most of those gathered here are quite familiar with 

 'F''^' - and their attractive features : but a keen faculty of 

 - _ the pan of the borucnhurist is not requisite for 



deteeiing the fact that in every quarter, — in the small garden, as 

 well as in tl-T _ ' ^ of the more favored, what are popularly 

 known as be. _ ^ts have so far usurped the place of their 

 less obtrusive relatives, hardy herbaceous plants, that the latter 

 are, to a large extent, unappreciated, because foi^otten and un- 

 known. These remarks apply not only to hardy plants but to some 

 beat: ^s not altogether hardy, but such as the gardener 



who>^ -_ : his profession rises above the mere drudgery often 



incident to its pursuit may, with the aid of cold frames and cov- 

 ering, protect through our trying winters with comparative ease ; 



