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BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, March 10, 1888. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at 1 1 o'clock, 

 the President, Henry P. Walcott in the chair. 



The Secretary read the following letter from B. S. Hoxie, 

 Secretary of the Wisconsin State Horticultural Society. 



EvANSViLLE, Wisconsin, March 6, 1888. 

 Dear Sir : Please find enclosed resolutions passed at our 

 Annual Meeting, held at Platteville, January 10th and 11th. 

 Allow me also to express my thanks for slips lately received, 

 containing valuable papers read at 3"our meetings this winter. 



The summer meeting of our Society will probablj' be held in the 

 City of Milwaukee, and if any representative of your Society 

 should chance to be with us we hope to make him welcome. 



Yours truly, 



B. S. Hoxie, Secretary. 



The resolution is as follows : 



Resolved, That the members of this Society extend their thanks 

 and fraternal greetings to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 for the courtesies extended to our delegates at the meeting of the 

 American Pomological Society held in the City of Boston, Sep- 

 tember 11-14, 1887, and that this resolution be spread upon our 

 records and that the Secretary be instructed to transmit a copy of 

 the same to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



It was voted that the letter and resolution be placed on file. 



Adjourned to Saturday, March 17. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 

 Hybrid Roses, Old and New. 



By William H. Spooner, Jamaica Plain. 



Notwithstanding the many treatises that have been written on 

 everj' department of Rose Gardening, the commercial cultivator 

 is constantly met by anxious inquiries as to how roses shall be 

 grown, and what varieties are most likely to prove satisfactory. 

 My purpose is to make some suggestions on these points, founded 

 on my experience. 



