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The question then came up on the adoption of the Report of 

 the Committee, and it was moved that it be adopted, and that the 

 sum of $10,000 be appropriated to carry into effect the recommen- 

 dations therein contained. 



Francis H. Appleton moved, as an amendment, that additional 

 room for the Library be provided by the construction of a gallery 

 within the Library Room, and that the sum of $12,000 be substi- 

 tuted for $10,000. 



This amendment was carried, and the original motion, as thus 

 amended, was carried. 



Mr. Hyde moved that the Finance Committee be requested to 

 have the portraits destroyed by fire, restored as soon as possible. 



The President stated that the family of General H. A. S. Dear- 

 born have an original portrait of him, by Stuart, which they are 

 ■willing to sell. 



Mr. Hyde's motion was carried, and it was further voted that 

 the Finance Committee be authorized to expend so much of the 

 money received from the insurance companies for injury to the 

 portraits, as is necessary to cover the expense of restoring them. 



Adjourned to Saturday, February 23, 1889, at half-past eleven 

 o'clock. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Shrubs that are Perfectly Hardy. 



By Jackson Dawson, Jamaica Plain. 



The first question is : What shrubs can be called perfectly 

 hardy in our rigorous New England climate? I should say : Any 

 shrubs that will live and grow and flower in any ordinary, well 

 prepared soil without any protection whatever, either by covering 

 or by being planted in a sheltered position, and that when once 

 properly established will, with ordinary' attention, give satisfac- 

 tion to the planter. There are many of our finest shrubs that do 

 well if care is exercised in the selection of situation and soil, or 

 if they are protected for a few years, until well established, that 

 would not do well otherwise. But these could not be termed per- 

 fectly hardy, neither would they prove satisfactory to the general 

 planter. As a rule he knows nothing of the care required to 

 bring such plants to perfection, but after he has set his shrubs in 



