92 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, January 29, 1887. 



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

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



The President, as Chairman of the P^xecutive Committee, 

 reported a recommendation that the Committee of Arrangements 

 be authorized to employ experts to assist the various Standing 

 Committees in the award of prizes at such exhibitions as to the 

 Committee of Arrangements may seem expedient — this subject 

 having been referred to the Executive Committee at the meeting 

 on the 1st of Januarj-. The report was accepted and the recom- 

 mendation was adopted. 



President Walcott also reported from the same Committee a rec- 

 ommendation that the President be authorized to employ counsel 

 to further the carrying out of the vote of the Society, passed De- 

 cember 4, 1886, concerning the securing of a site for a building 

 for the Society in the Public Garden. This report also was 

 accepted and the recommendation was adopted. 



Adjourned to Saturday, February' 5. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



HORTICULTUKAL EDUCATION FOR WoMEN. 



By Miss Sara J. Smith, Hartford, Ct. 



To this Society, meeting to learn from each other and to discuss 

 the best methods of improving our homes, our lands, our fruits, 

 and our flowers, culling year after year from the wisdom of 

 scientists and thinkers, and from the experience of practical 

 workers, then publishing and spreading world-wide the knowledge 

 thus gained — to such a Society as this it can be no marvel that 

 the seed thus sown broadcasi has taken root in the public mind, 

 and from it has arisen a iiope that, in tiie great educational revo- 

 lutions now progressing around us, this question of a good borti- 

 cullurul education for our 3oung women may (ind its solution, and 

 bring forth fruit for generations to come. 



