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The Chairman of the Committee on Publication stated that John 

 B. Moore, who had been announced to speak on the " Growth of 

 Plants " on the next Saturday, would be unable to do so, and that 

 an opportunity would be afforded to discuss such subjects as might 

 be brought up at that time. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, April 3, 1886. 



A duly notified stated meeting of the vSociety was holden at 11 

 o'clock, the President, Henry P. Walcott, in the chair. 



Edward L. Beard said that the Rose and Strawberry Show 

 would be the next great exhibition of the Society, and spoke of 

 the Challenge and other Vases, which had been offered as Special 

 Prizes for Roses at previous exhibitions, and had excited greater 

 interest than the Society's prizes. The money for these prizes 

 had been raised by private subscription, but he thought the time 

 had come when the Society could afford to pay them from its own 

 funds. The results of the Spring Exhibition were most flattering, 

 and, as he did not wish the Society to take a retrograde step, he 

 moved that the Executive Committee consider the expedienc}^ of 

 making an appropriation for Special Prizes for Roses at the Rose 

 Show in June, on the basis of the list of Special Subscription 

 Prizes offered last year. The motion was carried. 



The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee, were on ballot duly elected members of the 

 Society : 



Clement M. Hammond, of Hyde Park. 

 Charles G. Wood, of Boston. 

 Dr. Hosea M. Quimby, of Worcester. 

 Adjourned to Saturday, April 10. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



The Nomencla'ture op Fruits. 



Hon. Marshall P. Wilder said that the object of the reform in 

 the names of fruits, which the American Pomological Society is en- 



