254 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, September 3, 1887. 



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

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



President "Walcott said that before proceeding to other business, 

 he wished to make the official announcement of what was doubt- 

 less known to all those present — the decease, since the last 

 meeting of the Societ}^ of two of its Ex- Presidents, John B. 

 Moore and Charles M. Ilovey. 



Ex-Presidcut Moore died at his residence in Concord, on Sunda}^ 

 the 21st of August. The speaker desired to say that he looked 

 back to a pleasant intercourse with him. What most impressed 

 him was the manliness of the man ; his sturdy frame was an index 

 to what was in him. He was not unduly elated with success ; and 

 the reverses which come to all were met by him with manly cour- 

 age. In all his horticultural operations he illustrated the benefit 

 of thorough cultivation. He was prominent not only in this 

 Society, but as a member for many years of the State Board of 

 Agriculture. He was for a long time a Deputy Sheriff of Middle- 

 sex County, and also a member of the Board of Prison Commis- 

 sioners ; and the speaker had abundant opportunity*, from his own 

 official position, to know that the duties of the last-mentioned 

 office were discharged by him with signal ability and success. He 

 felt that honors conferred upon him involved obligations. 



Mr. Hovey died at his residence in Cambridge on Thursday, 

 September 1. Of him it is diflicult to speak otherwise than in 

 connection with this Society, especially in this building, erected 

 during his presidency, and largely due to his energy and persever- 

 ance. He was a man of very distinct convictions and very ener- 

 getic ways of stating them. Perhaps at the time of his death 

 there was no other name of so much consequence connected with 

 American horticulture. The Magazine of Horticulture, which he 

 commenced when a young man and published for thirty-four 

 years, is a record and a monument such as no otiier horticulturist 

 on this continent has left behind him. 



O. B. Hadwen moved that a committee of five be appointed by 

 the chair to prepare resolutions in memory of Ex-President Moore. 



