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For the Children's Garden Exhibition, $350.00 to include the 

 State appropriation of $200.00, and Mr. Wilder and the Secretary 

 were appointed a committee to secure additional prizes for this 

 exhibition. 



For the Committee on Gardens a sum not exceeding $200.00. 



Mr. Wilder called attention to the reduction in the amount of 

 prizes offered for fruits during the last few years. He said that the 

 fruit interest was an important department of the Society's work 

 and should receive suitable encouragement. On motion of Mr. 

 Wheeler it was voted to recommend to the Advisory Committee 

 that the sum of $1400.00 be appropriated for fruits in the Schedule 

 of the ensuing year. 



The special committee on nominations for the various commit- 

 tees of the Society for the year 1917 submitted the following list 

 which was adopted: 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 Nominations for 1917 Committees. 



Finance: — Walter Hunnewell, Chairman, Arthur F. Estabrook, 



Stephen M. Weld. 

 Membership: — Thomas Allen, George E. Barnard, Richard M. 



Saltonstall. 

 Prizes and Exliibitions : — James Wheeler, Chairman, John K. M. 



L. Farquhar, Duncan Finlayson, Thomas Roland. 

 Plants and Flowers : — William Anderson, Chairman, Arthur H. 



Fewkes, S. J. Goddard, Arthur E. Griffin, Donald 



McKenzie. 

 Fruits: — Edward B. Wilder, Chairman, Wm. N. Craig, Isaac H. 



Locke, James Methven. 

 Vegetables: — John L. Smith, Chairman, Edward Parker, Wm. 



C. Rust. 

 Gardens: ^ — Richard M. Saltonstall, Chairman, John S. Ames, 



David R. Craig, William Nicholson, Charles Sander, 



Charles H. Tenney. 



