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The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee, were on ballot duly elected members of the 

 Society. 



Michael J. Flynn, of Roxbury. 



John J. Merrill, of Roxbury. 



Warrex Ewell, of Dorchester. 



Franklin H. Beebe, of Boston. 



Isaac Y. Chubbuck, of Roxbury. 



Charles H. Smith, of Providence, R.I. 



Adjourned to Saturday, June 7. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, June 7, 1890. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at 11 o'clock, 

 the President, William H. Spooner, in the chair. 



Joseph H. Woodford, Chairman of the Committee on Plants 

 and Flowers, moved that the Committee of Arrangements be au- 

 thorized to supply moss for the rose boxes at the coming Rose 

 Exhibition, at a cost not exceeding §10. The motion was carried. 



Mrs. H. L. T. Wolcott, Chairman of the Committee on Window 

 Gardening, stated that in consequence of the additional duties de- 

 volved upon that Committee by vote of the Society on the 29th of 

 March, more funds would be required, and asked for an additional 

 appropriation of 8150. The subject was referred to the Executive 

 Committee. 



The Secretary read a letter from Dr. Robert P. Harris, of Phil- 

 adelphia, on the Potato, designed to awaken interest in the culti- 

 vation of wild North American species, for the production of new 

 and hardy varieties. On motion of Leverett M. Chase, the letter 

 was referred to the Committee on Vegetables, and ordered to be 

 published in the Transactions. 



The letter is as follows : — 



Philadelphia, April 10, 1890. 

 To the Massachusetts Horticultural Society : — 



The interests of Potato Culture in the United States require 

 that an early repetition of the work of the late Rev. Chauncy E. 



