164 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, November 2, 1889. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holdeu at 11 o'clock, 

 the President, Henry P. Walcott, in the chair. 



The President reported from the Executive Committee, a recom- 

 mendation that the Society appropriate for prizes for the 3'ear 1890, 

 the same sum, and that it be divided in the same proportions as the 

 present ^-ear, viz : — 



For Prizes and Gratuities for Plants and Flowers, $3,000 



" " " Fruits, 1,700 



" " " Vegetables, 1,000 



" " 44 Gardens, Greenhouses, etc., 300 



Total, $6,000 



The report was accepted, and agreeably to the Constitution and 

 By-Laws, was laid over to the Stated Meeting on the first Saturday 

 jn January for final action. 



On motion of John G. Barker, it was 



Voted, That the amendments to the Constitution and By-Laws, 

 relating to the establishment of a Committee on Plants, etc., 

 a,dopted at the last meeting, shall not go into effect until the year 

 1891. 



Benjamin G. Smith, from the Committee appointed to prepare 

 a memorial of the late Henry Weld Fuller, presented the following 

 report : — 



Henry Weld Fuller was born in Augusta, Maine, January 16, 

 1810, and died in Boston, August 14, 1889. He came of a leading 

 ;family of Maine, his father being Judge Henry W. Fuller of 

 Augusta, and his mother a sister of Miss Hannah Flagg Gould, 

 the poet. Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller is a nephew of the late 

 Mr. Fuller, and Margaret Fuller was a near relative. At an early 

 age Mr. Fuller entered Bowdoin College. Henry W. Longfellow, 

 Franklin Pierce, and John P. Hale were college mates, though not 

 classmates of his. In 1828 he graduated, having the Latin Salu- 

 tatory, and three 3'ears afterwards returned to deliver the Latin 

 Valedictory at Commencement, taking the degree of A. M. At 



