ANNUAL MEETING FOR THE YEAR 1906. 



The Annual IMeeting of tlie Massachusetts Horticuhural .Society 

 for the year 1906 was held at Horticultural Hall, Boston, Saturday, 

 November 17. President Estabrook j)resided and there were 

 fifty members present at the opening of the meeting. 



The President called the meeting to order at a Quarter before 

 twelve o'clock A. INI. and stated that it had been called in accord- 

 ance with the By-laws for the election of officers for the ensuing 

 year and for the transaction of such business as might properly 

 come before it; and that a printed notice of the meeting had been 

 mailed to the address of every member of the Society as it appeared 

 upon the records of the Secretary. 



He appointed Edward B. Wilder, J. Allen Crosby, and ^Yilliam 

 P. Rich a committee to receive, assort, and count the ballots, and 

 to report the number, and declared the polls open at twelve o'clock, 

 to continue open until four o'clock. 



The record of the Annual Meeting of November 18, 1905, was 

 then read by the Secretary and approved by vote of the meeting. 



The President reported that the Board of Trustees had appro- 

 priated $5500.00 for prizes and gratuities for the year 1907; a 

 reduction of $1200.00 from the amount appropriated for the present 

 year. 



The following named persons, proposed by Prof. C. S. Sargent, 

 and recommended by the Board of Trustees, were duly elected to 

 corresponding membership in the Society: 



Dr. Henry L. Ridley, Director Botanic Garden, Singapore. 

 Lieut. Col. David Prain, Director Royal Gardens, Kew, 



England. 

 Senor Don Salvador Izquierdo, Santiago, Chile. 

 Miss E. Willmott, Essex, England. 



Hon. Aaron Low presented a memorial in honor of the late 

 Benjamin P. Ware who was for forty-one years an active and inter- 

 ested member of this Societv. At the conclusion of Mr. Low's 



