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duce one liundred and fifty plants, which yiekled four hundred and 

 fifty pounds, or seven and a half bushels, and that one pound 

 (four potatoes) has produced two thousand plants, and nineteen 

 hundred and eighty-two pounds, or thirty-three bushels of potatoes. 

 The second season of the Early Rose brought the price down to 

 810 per bushel, the third year to $3, and the fourth to an edible 

 valuation. 



Yours very respectfully, 



ROBERT P. HARRIS. 



The following named persons, having been recommended by the 

 Executive Committee, were on ballot duly elected members of 

 the Society. 



Willi Ajr Thomas Park, of Boston. 



Robert C. Winthrop, Jr., of Boston. 



A. Chandler Manning, of Reading. 



William O. Rogers, of Chelsea. 



The meeting was then dissolved. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



- Saturday, July 5, 1890. 

 A duly notified stated meeting of the Society was holden at 

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



The President, as Chairman of the Executive Committee, re- 

 ported a recommendation that the Society make an additional 

 appropriation of $150 for the use of the Committee on Window 

 Gardening, to be expended under the joint approval of the Presi- 

 dent and the Chairman of the Committee on Window Gardening. 

 The report was accepted and adopted, and the appropriation was 

 voted. 



The Executive Committee also recommended to the Society the 

 adoption of the following amendment to the Constitution and 

 By-Laws : — 



Add at the end of Section 1 the words " and provided also that 

 no person shall be eligible to the oHice of Treasurer or Secretary 

 who is not a member of the Society." 



