MEMORIAL OF HON. MARSHALL P. WILDER. 135 



pick these you will get flowers from the side shoots. Paasies 

 are fond of moisture aud cool soil, aud will bear the highest ma- 

 nuring if the manure is somewhat decomposed. He manures them 

 highly in a trench with the coolest manure he can get. If the 

 weather is very dry he would water with pretty strong liquid ma- 

 nure — not immediately' around the plants, but would make holes 

 between them and pour the manure in. He picks them because 

 he wants them, but never lets them mature seed. 



Mr. Faxon agreed with Mr. Woodford that it is very necessary 

 to pick off the flowers of annuals as fast as they bloom ; it is one 

 great secret of success. If they make a few seed-pods it is too 

 late to stop them. He recommended the Meteor and Prince of 

 Orange calendulas. 



It was announced that on the next Saturday W". A. Manda, gar- 

 dener at the Botanic Garden of Harvard Uuiversit}', would read a 

 paper on " Herbaceous Plants." 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, February 19, 1887. 



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

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



The Secretary read a letter from G. B. Brackett, Secretary of 

 the Iowa State Horticultural Society, enclosing the following me- 

 morial of the late Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, adopted by that Soci- 

 ety at its meeting at Charles City, January 21, 1887 : 



Whereas, at the close of a useful life of more than fourscore 

 years, during which he has been one of the foremost actors in all 

 the great events of the age, spending more than half a centur}' in 

 the promotion of all that pertains to the art and science of Pomol- 

 ogy and Horticulture, the Hon. Marshall P. Wilder has been called 

 to his final rest in the heavenly paradise, by the pure river of the 

 water of life, and beneath the tree of life which yields its twelve 

 manner of fruits every month, and its leaves for the healing of 

 the nations — 



Therefore, Resolved, That we, the officers and members of the 



