148 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



We believe that the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, by offering 

 young gardeners the use of its library, will be fulfilling an important part 

 of its mission — the advancement of horticulture. 



AVith this presentment, yovu' committee would recommend that, as an 

 experiment, the library of the Society be opened each Simday from two to 

 six o'clock P. M. for the use of members and such persons who are not 

 members as may be accredited by the ticket of the Society; the privilege 

 to include pennission to take books home for perusal under such regulations 

 as may be prescribed by the librarian; applications for library privileges 

 by non-members, as above stated, to be made to the librarian who shall 

 investigate and report, with a recommendation in each case, to the Library 

 Committee for approval. 



We further recommend that the librarian be authorized to employ such 

 assistance as may be necessary to carry out the work efficiently, yet with 

 economy. 



Respectfully submitted, 



(Signed) J. A. Pettigrew 



Wm. p. Rich 



Committee. 



The report of the committee was accepted and its recommenda- 

 tions adopted; and the committee was empowered to carry into 

 effect the proposed opening of the library on Snnday afternoons. 



A communication from Mrs. Lemuel Skidmore of Summit, 

 New Jersey, was read, stating that on the death of INIiss H. F. W. 

 Sweetser, the last member of the family of Samuel Sweetser, 

 formerly of Cambridge, Massachusetts, and a member of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society from 1835 to 1870, there was 

 found among her papers a request that the portrait of her father be 

 presented to this Society. 



Mrs. Skidmore wrote that the portrait was ready for delivery 

 if acceptable to the Society. 



It was voted to acce])t the portrait of INIr. Sweetser with thanks 

 to Mrs. Skidmore for her interest in the matter. 



A communication from Senor Don Salvador Izquierdo of Chile 

 was read accepting the honor of corresponding membership in the 

 Society. 



On motion of Mr. Fewkes it was voted to invite the New England 

 Dahlia Society to hold its annual exhibition in conjunction with the 

 September Exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



At the suggestion of William H. Spooner, Delegate to the State 



