24 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The financial concerns of the Committee are in a prosperous condition. 



The amount appropriated by the Society for Floral Prizes was one thousand 

 dollars. In addition to this the Committee of Arrangements for the Annual 

 Exhibition appropriated $133 for extra prizes and gratuities, making a total 

 of JJ1133. 



Of this sum the amount awarded in prizes and gratuities during the season, 

 and at the Annual Exhibition, was seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars ; in 

 extra gratuities for meritorious displays during the season, fifty dollars ; in all, 

 eight hundred and seven dollars, leaving a balance to the credit of the Com- 

 mittee, of two hundred and twenty-six dollars, which the Committee return to 

 the treasury of the Society. 



In resigning the post of Chairman of the Flower Committee, which he has 

 h«ld for the past five years, the writer cannot but express his thanks to those 

 to whose hearty and cordial cooperation and assistance he owes so much of 

 the success which has attended the labors of the Committee, and more 

 especially would he remember those members of the Flower Committees for 

 the several yeari with whom he has been so pleasantly associated. 'It is a 

 pleasure to have been able in any way to have advanced the interests of 

 floriculture, and to this end, more especially, will his best efforts and labors be 

 devoted in the future, in connection with the welfare and true interests of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



All of which is respectfully submitted by 



EDWARD S. RAND, JR., 



, Chairman of Flowtr Committee. 



Approved, 

 Geo. W. Pratt, 

 W. H. Spooner, Jr., | 

 C. H. B. Breck, f- 



K. W. BUSWELL, 



James McTear. 1 



Committee on Flowers 

 for 1862. 



