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of carriages over gravel roads. The whole subject is oue of 

 great interest to the people, not onl}' of this State but of other 

 States also. 



Mr. Ross would have a cemetery made as natural as possible. 

 He considered concrete too artificial for such grounds. As for 

 noise, he thought a carriage would make no more noise passing 

 over a good, hard, well-made gravel road than on a concreted 

 avenue. 



Mr. Hovey doubted whether anj- one system, plan, or method 

 could be devised for use in cemeteries, that would be acceptable to 

 people generally. Tastes differ greatlj' ; some like one thing, some 

 another. Some may not like what is termed landscape gardening, 

 but prefer what is more after Nature. 



Announcement was made that Professor G. H. Whitcher, 

 Director of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station, 

 Hanover, N. H., would read a paper on the " Growth and Nutri- 

 tion of Plants," at the meeting on the next Saturday. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, February 22, 1890. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at half-past 

 ■eleven o'clock, the President, William H. Spoouer in the Chair. 



The Committee to nominate a Window Gardening Committee 

 for the )'ear 1890, reported the following names : 



Mrs. Henrietta L. T. Wolcott, Henry L, Clapp, 



Miss Sarah W. Story, E. H. Hitchings, 



Marshall B. Faxon. 



The report was accepted and adopted, and the persons named 

 therein were elected members of the Committee on Window 

 Gardening. 



Adjourned to Saturday, March 1, at half-past eleven o'clock. 



