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with silvery foliage, and yellow fragrant flowers in summer. E, 

 longipes is a low growing shrub with rusty leaves, greenish yellow 

 flowers, and fruit of a dull red, mottled, about the size of a coi-ne- 

 lian cherry, and quite palatable to those who like a fruit combining 

 sweetness and acidity. E. argentea is a neat medium-sized shrub 

 with small silvery leaves, and fruit covered with a greyish bloom. 



Hippopliae rhamnoides and H. salicifolia are two good plants 

 near the sea ; the flowers are inconspicuous ; the foliage is of a 

 silvery gray. 



Myrica Gale and M. cerifera are excellent plants to grow as 

 under-shrubs, or to plant on dry, sterile places. The same can be 

 said of Comptonia asplenifolia, the Sweet Fern. 



Empetrum nigrum and E. corema are not showy, but can be 

 used in deep sandy soils to form a carpet ; they become dense mats 

 of green, much resembling the heather when out of bloom. They 

 are somewhat hard to handle, but when once established do well. 



I have no doubt that there are many more plants which might 

 be added to this list as perfectly hardy, but those I have mentioned 

 are the ones which, when tried by the side of others, have held 

 their own under ordinary treatment. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, February 23, 1889. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at half-past 

 eleven o'clock, the President, Henry P. Walcott, in the Chair. 

 No business being brought before the meeting it 

 Adjourned to Saturday, March 2, 1889. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 

 The Embellishmekt of School Grounds. 



By Leverett M. Chase, Master of the Dudley School, Roxbury. 



The public school is distinctly an American idea. When the 

 principle that our government rests upon the consent of those 

 governed was established, popular education became a necessity. 

 The enormous expense of our school system is more cheerfully 



