TRANSACTIONS 



Massachusetts goytifuWuKal f ocietg. 



1918, PART I. 



INAUGURAL MEETING. 



The Inaugural Meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society for the year 1918 was held at Horticultural Hall, Boston, 

 on Saturday, January 12, at twelve o'clock, with President Salton- 

 stall in the Chair. 



The call for the meeting was read by the Secretary and the 

 record of the previous meeting was read and approved. The 

 President then proceeded to deliver his Inaugural Address. 



Inaugural Address of President Saltonstall. 

 Ladies and Gentlevien, 



Members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society : 



It has been a great pleasure to me to serve as your President 

 for the past two years. It was certainly my intention to retire 

 with the close of last year, but it was represented to me that 

 several of my predecessors had served three years; that it 

 was a year filled with difficulties arising from the war and that 

 under the circumstances I owed it to the Society to continue in 

 office one more year. For these reasons I shall gladly undertake 

 to serve to my best ability although I believe that rotation in the 

 office of the President of this Society every two years ordinarily 

 is advisable. 



The past year has been one of great interest to me and I feel 

 that the result of the work of your Trustees and the various Com- 

 mittees undertaken during the year has not only kept up with the 



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