MEMORIAL OF CHARLES O. WHITMORE. 241 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, December 26, 1885, 

 An adjourued meeting of the Society was holdeu at 11 o'clock, 

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



William C. Strong, Chakraan of the Committee appointed 

 December 5th to pre})are resolutions in memory of Charles O. 

 Whitmore, presented the following report: — 



The Committee appointed to express the regard of the Society 

 for the late Charles O. Whitmore, report as follows : 



In view of the decease of Charles O. Whitmore, Esq., the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society desires gratefully to record 

 its deep sense of indebtedness for his long, faithful, and able 

 services as Chan-man of its Committee on Finance, and also in 

 other important offices o^ the Society. His untiring zeal in pro- 

 moting the welfare of the Society will ever be held in thankful 

 remembrance. 



The Society also extends to the family of the deceased its 

 sincere sympathy in their present sorrow. 



William C. Strong, ^ 

 Marshall P. Wilder, > Committee. 

 William H. Spooner, ) 



Mr. Strong added that he regretted the absence of Hon. 

 Marshall P. Wilder, a member of the Committee, who had been 

 long and intimately acquainted with Mr. Whitmore, and w±o was 

 competent to speak of him as few of his friends could. Mr. 

 Whitmore was a member of the Committee to procure a site 

 for a new hall for the Society, and also of the Committee to erect 

 a building. He was fully impressed with the belief that this site, 

 fronting on a main street and liounded by two side streets, was 

 the most eligible to be found, and was extremely persistent in his 

 efforts to secm-e it ; and but for these efforts it is very doubtful 

 whether we should have acquired this land and building. Though 

 he had engaged in practical horticulture only to a small extent, 

 he felt that without the benign influences of the cultivation of 

 nature men would grow up in heathen darkness. 



