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this Committee be requested to report to the Society at the next 

 meeting the names of two members whom they would recommend 

 to fill these vacancies. 



Hon. William H. Haile, of Springfield, and 

 Thomas B. Fitz, of West Newton, 



having been recommended b}' the Executive Committee, were, on 

 ballot, duly elected members of the Society. 



Adjourned to Saturday, December 6, 1890. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, December 6, 1890. 

 An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at eleven 

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



The President announced the decease of Mrs. Francis B. Hayes, 

 and said that as a contributor to the weekly exhibitions of the • 

 Society no one was more constant ; she never needed urging. She 

 was also noted for her generous hospitality which she was specially 

 pleased to show to this Society. 



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

 sented the Schedule of Prizes prepared by the Committee on Estab- 

 lishing Prizes, with the recommendation that it be amended by the 

 offer of Prospective Prizes for Herbaceous Paeonies, Tuberous- 

 Rooted Begonias, and Chrysanthemums ; that the Prospective 

 Prizes for Flowers be made uniformly fifty dollars ; that Chrysan- 

 themum plants exhibited for prizes be required to be single 

 stemmed, branching above ground ; and that in the prize for forty 

 Chrysanthemum plants in six-inch pots, the words " each bearing 

 a single bloom " be stricken out. These amendments were carried, 

 excepting the last. 



On motion of Joseph S. Chase, it was voted that three prizes 

 for Herbert Grapes be offered at the October exhibition. 



The Schedule was then adopted. 



Frederick L. Harris, Chairman of the Committee-elect on Plants, 

 to which was referred the nomination of two members to fill the 

 vacancies in that Committee, presented the names of Azell C. 



