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leave, hut it was there the last time she looked. Slie was once 

 obliged to move an entire garden of herbaceous plants in July, and 

 by taking care in watering made them live and do well. A plant of 

 Aster Novce-AtiglicB was moved on the hottest day in summer 

 without being shaded, and became ver}' mucii wilted, but she 

 watered it and put a newspaper around it, and in four weeks it was 

 green again, and by the first of October it was a solid mass of 

 purple bloom ; its persistency was remarkable. She had never 

 thought the Dodecatheon difficult to raise. 



Warren H. Manning said that most herbaceous plants will bear 

 transplanting in summer, especially if a ball of earth is taken up 

 with them. 



Mr. ilitchings said that he set a few plants of Arisaema in his 

 garden some years ago, and instead of dying out they had increased 

 ever}' year. 



The paper for the next Saturday- was announced as "Fertilizers, 

 — Agricultural, Physical, Intellectual, and Moral," by Rev. Fred- 

 erick N. Knapp. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, February 26, 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 Executive Committee re- 

 ported, in regard to the subject of encouraging Window Garden- 

 ing, referred to that Committee on the 5th instant, a recommenda- 

 tion that $100 be appropriated for prizes for Window Gardening 

 by children under eighteen years of age, the prizes to be arranged 

 by the Committee on Establishing Prizes. The leport was ac- 

 cepted and, agreeably to the rules, laid over until the first Satur- 

 day in April. 



Adjourned to Saturday, March 5. 



