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that our own Society is bound sooner or later to recognize in- 

 telligently the commercial florist. It should do all that it can to 

 encourage his interests ; it should do more than it has ever yet 

 done, and should keep pace with the movement which has pro- 

 ceeded so rapidly of late years. While the florists are essentially 

 commercial men they are not the less introducers of new things, 

 and thereby advancers of horticulture. Our Society is one which 

 can afford to take a higher view of this subject than it has j'et 

 taken. The interests which control it and the florists' associations 

 have much in common, though they may work in different ways. 

 The recent Orchid Exhibition in New York was an enterprise in- 

 volving great risks, and it was a great credit to the florists who 

 managed it that they made it as successful as they did, twenty-five 

 thousand people having attended it, paying an admission fee of 

 fifty cents each. No comparison can justly be made between it 

 and our own exhibition, but it shows great activity and energ}'. 

 As long as the florists' efforts are in such a direction as that horti- 

 cultural societies ought to encourage them. 



Notice was given that on the next Saturday a paper would be 

 read by Francis H. Appleton, on the " Embellishment of Grounds 

 with Trees and Shrubs." 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, March 19, 1887. 



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

 Vice-President Benjamin G. Smith in the chair. 



No business being brought before the meeting, it adjourned to 

 Saturday, March 26. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



The Embellishment of Grounds with Trees and Shrubs. 



By Francis H. Appleton, Peabody. 



Most of the ladies and gentlemen who listen to my brief words 

 today have probably long since made up their minds as to how 

 their own grounds should be laid out, and have them already 



