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The Chairman of the Committee on Publication and Discussion 

 announced for the next Saturday, a paper on "Cemeteries and 

 Parks," by John G. Barker, Superintendent of Forest Hills Ceme- 

 tery, Jamaica Plain. . 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, February 15, 1890. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at half past 

 eleven o'clock, the President, William H. Spooner, in the chair. 



The following vote was presented by Francis H. Appleton : 

 Voted, That this Society extend to each incorporated Agricul- 

 tural, and Horticultural Society of Massachusetts, having a 

 delegate in the State Board of Agriculture, an invitation to 

 appoint one of its members, who shall have the free use of this 

 Library and Room (no book to be taken from the room) during 

 the year 1890, for the purpose of preparing Essays for delivery at 

 Institutes of their own or other societies. The said members to 

 be appointed by the President and Secretary of their respective 

 societies. 



The vote was unanimously adopted. 



Joseph H. Woodford moved that a committee of three be 

 appointed by the Chair to nominate candidates for a Committee 

 on Window Gardening for the year 1890. The motion was 

 carried, and the Chair appointed as that Committee, Mr. Wood- 

 ford, John G. Barker, and Robert T. Jackson. 



Adjourned to Saturday, February 22, 1890, at half past eleven 

 o'clock. 



