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The report was accepted, and, agreeably to the Constitution 

 and By-Laws, was laid over for final action at the Stated Meeting: 

 of the Society on the first Saturday in January, 1896. 



The President further reported from the Executive Committee a 

 recommendation that the Society appropriate $30(i for the Com- 

 mittee on Lectures and Publication, this sum to include the income 

 of the John Lewis Russell Fund. This report was accepted and 

 laid over until the first Saturday in January. 



John Gr. Barker, Chairman of the Committee on Gardens, made 

 a partial report, being the awards of Prizes and Gratuities made 

 by that Committee, and asked for further time to prepare the 

 remainder of the report. The report, so far as made, was 

 accepted and further time was granted. 



E. W. Wood, Chairman of the Committee on Fruits, read the 

 Annual Report of that Committee, and also his report as Delegate 

 to the State Board of Agriculture. 



Joseph H. Woodford, Chairman of the Committee of Arrange- 

 ments, read the Annual Report of that Committee. 



Arthur H. Fewkes, Chairman of the Committee on Flowers, 

 read the Annual Report of that Committee. 



Azell C. Bowditch, Chairman of the Committee on Plants, read 

 the Annual Report of that Committee. 



These five reports were severally accepted and referred to the 

 Committee on Publication. 



The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee for membership in the Society, were on 

 ballot duly elected : 



Robert D. Ireland, of Winthrop, 



George M. Anderson, of Milton, 



Charles W. Hallstram, of Boston, 



Edward Hatch, of Boston, 



H. Fisher Eldredge, of Boston, 



Hon. Edward P. Shaw, of Newburyport, 



jAMiis E. Rothwell, of Brookline, 



Alexander Montgomery, of Natick, 



Joseph W. Howard, of Somerville, 



Mrs. Elizabeth S. Cheney, of Wellesley, 



George A. Gardner, of Boston, 



Micajah Pratt Clough, of Lynn. 



