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exhibition day. After considerable discussion, the motion was 



laid on the table. 



SAifUEL.HoAE, of Concord, and 



Eliht G. Loomis. of Bedford, 

 having been recommended by the Executive Committee, were, on 

 ballot, duly elected members of the Society. 



The meetins was then dissolved. 



BusLXEss :meetixg. 



SATrRi>AT. July 11. IsSo. 

 A duly notified stated meeting of the Society was holden at 

 11 o'clock (the preceding Saturday having been a legal holiday). 

 the President, Johx B. !Moore. in the chair. 



The Secretary stated that Charles S. Sargent and -John Robinson, 

 who were appointed a Committee to co-operate with the American 

 Forestry Congress at its meeting in Boston, in September next, 

 were obliged to decline on account of pressing engagements, and. 

 the Forestry Congress being desirous to have the arrangements for 

 the meeting made at an early day. the President, shortly after 

 the last meeting of the Society, appointed William C. Strong. 

 Benjamin G. Smith, and .John E. RusseU a Committee in their 

 place. This action was confirmed by the Society, and on motion 

 of William H. Spooner it was voted that a sum not exceeding 

 one hundred doUars be appropriated for the expenses of the meet- 

 ing. It was also voted that Mr. Spooner be added to the Com- 

 mittee. 



C. H. B. Breck, Chainnan of the Committee to prepare resolu- 

 tions in memory of P. B. Hovey, reported the following : 



JThereas. By the will of Almighty God, an esteemed and 

 honored friend, associate, and co-lalx)rer has been removed from 

 the scenes of earth to a higher life : therefore 



Resoh-ed. That by the death of Mr. Phineas Brown Hovey. a 

 member of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society from the first 

 year of its existence, in 1829, — of which period he was a Vice- 



