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In addition to these duties he served also for twenty-five years 

 as a member of the Committee of Arrangements; twenty-two years 

 on the Garden Committee; twenty-two years on the Committee 

 on Estabhshing Prizes; eight years on the Committee on Lectures 

 and Publications; and nine years as the Society's Delegate to the 

 State Boanl of Agriculture. 



Mr. Wood was an interesting and instructive speaker and was 

 often called upon at the meetings of the Society to take part in the 

 lectures and discussions. The volumes of the Transactions of the 

 ^lassachusetts Horticultural Society are enriched by the records 

 of his experience, and his many annual reports of the Committee 

 on Fruits are valuable contribtitions to pomological history. 



The list of his more formal lectures delivered before the Society 

 is as follows: 



Essay on Dwarf Pear Trees. 1874. 



Culture of the Foreign Grape in Cold Graperies. 1876. 



The Culture and Varieties of Roses. 1878. 



Fruits best adapted for Market Purposes. 1881. 



The best Ivinds of Fruit for Export. 1883. 



Fruits that promise "Well. 1886. 



Discussion on Fruit. 1905. 



The best New England Fruits. 1906. 



Other activities also engaged his attention. He was much 

 interested in the State Agricultural College of which he was a 

 trustee for many years, and he was a member of the State Legisla- 

 ture in 1885, 1886, and 1887, besides filling various official positions 

 in his own city. 



^Ir. Wood was an authority on the subject of fruits and fruit 

 growing and had unbounded confidence in the possibilities of New 

 England orcharding. He advocated the production of apples, 

 especially, as a business, and urged the renovation of oiu* old or- 

 chards and the planting of new ones. 



By his death the Society has lost another of its devoted members, 

 and his name is added to the long roll of those who have rendered 

 distinguished serA-ice in its work. 



