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receptacle, Mr. Fiulaysou could not say that one would get the 

 same color as the parent flower, but sometimes they are thus 

 reproduced. The central or disk florets are perfect flowers, but 

 the ray florets are all of but one sex. 



Plants are never used a second season. They cannot be grafted 

 successfully; even if the union of scion and stock could be 

 effected, the stem is so brittle that a very light wind would be 

 liable to break it at the junction. 



Regarding the possibility of growing cinerarias in a north-east 

 shady corner, Mr. Finlayson thought it could probably be done, 

 but he doubted the advisability of a trial, as the result would 

 generally be far from satisfactory. 



The announcement for the next Saturday was a paper on 

 " Some Insects Injurious to Vegetation," by John G. Jack, of the 

 Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, March 3, 1894. 

 An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at eleven 

 o'clock. Vice President Francis H. Appleton in the chair. 



A letter from C. J. Pennock, Secretary of the American Carna- 

 tion Society, was read, accepting the offer, by this Society, of one 

 of its halls for the meeting of the American Carnation Society in 

 February, 1895. 



Frederick A. Blake, of Rochdale, was proposed by O. B. Hadwen, 



as an Annual Member of the Society. 



The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee, were on ballot duly elected members of 

 the Society : 



Philip A. Chase, of Lynn, 



John C. Cobb, of Milton, 



Col. William L. Chase, of Brookline, 



Augustus H. Kelley, of East Boston, 



Charles A. Loring, of Reading, 



Marshall F. Ewell, of Marshfleld Hills. 



The mcetin*):; was then dissolved. 



