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planting on Arbor Day ; in "Worcester the park commissioners 

 gave over a tliousand trees. Peoj)le who have a tree given them 

 ■will set it out when tiiey will not buy one. 



The Chairman thought the hemlock one of the most beautifnl 

 of all the conifers ; he has two or three which he would not part 

 with on any account. lie has not succeeded witli tlie holly. He 

 thought very highly of Andromeda Jloribunda and A. speciosa as 

 early flowering slirubs. He was very much interested in the sub- 

 ject under discussion, and glad to do something to promote it, 

 though in a humble way. When he began thirt}'' years ago his 

 elms were fifteen feet high, and now they are sixty, and his ever- 

 greens have grown proportionately. He has in his trees gray, red, 

 and striped squirrels ; and a colony of crow blackbirds, besides 

 other birds, all of which he encourages. 



Mr. Appleton said that there is in hia neighborhood a bank 

 about six hundred feet long with a northerly exposure, on which 

 hemlocks are growing thriftily though tiie soil is quite gravelly, and 

 this fact would seem to be an argument that hemlocks would do 

 well in such locations when once established. 



Mr. Hersey spoke of a gentleman who found one side of his 

 cornfield eaten very badly ; he went up with his gun and killed 

 one red squirrel, and on opening its stomacli he found in it one 

 kernel of corn and thirty gray cut-worms. 



The announcement for the next Saturday was " Horticultural 

 Reminiscences," by Hon. Daniel Needham. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, March 26, 1887. 



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

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

 No business being brought before the meeting, it was dissolved. 



