38 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Saturday, January 30, 1875. 



The Chairman of the Committee on Publication and Discussion 

 submitted a code of rules for the government of the meetings, 

 which were unanimously adopted. 



Rules of the Meetings for Discussion. 



1. An assigned subject shall be first in order, to be opened, as 

 far as may be practicable, by a written essay not exceeding half an 

 hour in length, except by consent of the Committee on Discussions. 



2. A public discussion upon the subject of the essay shall fol- 

 low, each speaker being limited to ten minutes and not speaking 

 more than once, except by express vote of the Society. 



3. Contributions on exhibition may be presented and remarks 

 made, each speaker being limited to ten minutes on each specimen. 



4. Any new subject having the approval of the Committee on 

 Discussions may be presented, subject to the previous rules. 



5. It shall be the duty of the President to enforce these rules. 



The essayist to-day was William Gray, Jr., who said that he 

 had intended to read a paper on Geraniums, but a question had 

 arisen as to the proper designation of the plants commonly culti- 

 vated under that name. The most sensible thing he had seen on 

 the subject was in the introduction to " A Monograph of the Genus 

 Geranium," by H. "G. Andrews, who said that he " should ever 

 place the whole tribe under the title Geranium, regarding every 

 unnecessary increase of genera as the direct road to confusion." 

 Mr. Gray suggested that the society should discuss the subject, and 

 adopt the correct name. He illustrated his remarks on the diffi- 

 culty of getting up plants of the new tricolor varieties, by speci- 

 mens in pots exhibited on the table before him. The paper was as 

 follows : — 



Pelargoniums, — Their Culture and Varieties, 

 by william gray, jr. 



The subject proposed for discussion to-day is, the Pelargonium, 

 and first I shall take the tricolored section. Whoever can grow 



