MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



carry on the routine business, deliberation is, it seems to me, as 

 important as push. We might easily buy a piece of land larger 

 than this we now own, put up a building which we should find 

 much more convenient than this, and at the end of two or three 

 years find that we were not in the right place, and had not enough 

 room after all. 



This summer it became necessary to replace the boiler, and this 

 was done as thoroughly as if we were to stay here forever. The 

 entire cost was, however, but little over eight hundred dollars. 

 Very few other repairs have been needed. This coming summer 

 it will be necessary to do a great deal of repairing to the roof. 



Perhaps my remarks have sounded as if I did not favor our 

 moving, but I do most emphatically believe we should move, 

 onljT^ not until we find the right place. And I think your Com- 

 mittee will find it yet. 



On motion of Ex-President Spooner, it was voted, that the 

 President be requested to furnish a copy of his address for 

 publication. 



The appropriations for Prizes and Gratuities, recommended by 

 the Executive Committee on November 3, and then laid over until 

 this meeting, came up for final action and were voted, as follows : 



For Prizes and Gratuities : 



For Plants, 

 For Flowers, . 

 For Fruits, 

 For Vegetables, 

 For Gardens, . 



And a special appropriation of one hundred dol 

 lars for prizes for Palms, etc., at the meet- 

 ing of the American Carnation Society, in 

 the Hall of this Society, February 21 and 

 22, 1895, 



Total for Prizes and Gratuities, 



$2,000 



2,500 



1,800 



1,150 



500 



100 



$8,050 



The President, as Chairman of the Executive Committee, 

 reported from that Committee a recommendation that the Society 



make the following appropriations : 



