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would afford a passage to the worms were removed from the troughs, 

 and the tar or oil kept liquid, a majority of the speakers prefer- 

 ring some form of trough, and among these the cheapest wooden 

 ones as equally effectual with more costly metal ones ; and that 

 nothing had yet been devised which would relieve the cultivator 

 from the necessity of care and attention. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, February 7, 1874. 



An adjourned meeting of the society was holden at 11 o'clock. 

 President Strong in the chair. 



Voted, That the Massachusetts Horticultural Society protest 

 against the indiscriminate destruction of the elm trees on Tremont 

 street, known as the "Paddock Elms," and that the president and 

 recording secretary be a committee to confer with the Committee 

 on Public Grounds in relation thereto. 



The following named persons were elected to membership : — 



Miss Harriet S. Tolman, of Boston. 

 Benjamin Brintnall, " 



William Lumb, " 



John Atherton, of "West Newton. 



Adjourned to the first Saturday in March. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Owing to a misunderstanding in regard to an expected paper on 

 window gardening, the time was occupied by an impromptu dis- 

 cussion on the Amaryllis, which was introduced by Charles M. 

 Hovey by an allusion to the fine specimen of A. Cleopatra placed 

 on the table by John B. Moore, and to the new variet}^, ])ardina, 

 shown by James Comley a short time since. It is a tribe of 

 plants which should be better known to the flower-loving public. 

 As Mr. Hovey had been obliged to grow them, among other plants 

 where their peculiar needs could not be consulted, they failed to 



