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accepted, and it was voted that the Committee remain in office, 

 and be requested to continue their work on the subject. 



The President appointed William P. Rich a member of the 

 Committee on School Gardens and Children's Herbariums, in place 

 of T. Otis Fuller, who had declined to serve. 



The President also announced the Committee provided for at the 

 last meeting of the Society, to consider the expediency of placing 

 the property of the Society in the hands of a Board of Trustees, 

 as follows : William C. Strong, William H. Spooner, and Walter 

 Hunnewell. 



The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee as members of the Society, were, on ballot, 

 duly elected : 



Dr. Daniel D. Lee, of Boston. 



John C. Haskell, of Lynn. 



Fred. W. Fletcher, of Auburndale. 



Mrs. Clara E. Sears, of Boston. 



Hon. Charles W. Hoitt, of Nashua, N. H. 



Harry Burnett, of Southborough. 



Adjourned to Saturday, March 2. 



MEETING FOR LECTURE AND DISCUSSION. 



The following paper was read by the author : 



Hardy Plants and Shrubs and their Arrangement. 

 By J. Wilkinson Elliott, Landscape Architect, I'ittsburg, I'a. 



It must be remembered that my experience has been with a more 

 western civilization, and some of my remarks may not have much 

 force addressed to so enlightened a gardening community as that 

 of Boston and its suburbs. Yet I am told there are some people 

 in this neighborhood who persist, and at considerable outlay and 

 trouble, in using thousands of tender bedding plants to make poor 

 representations of inanimate objects. If this is true they cannot 

 make the plea of not knowing better, for all about them are many 

 of the best and most tasteful gardens in America — splendid 

 examples of garden schemes in which the so-called bedding plants 

 cut little or no figure. 



