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BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, December 20, 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 "Warren Heustis, of 

 Belmont, and spoke of him as a member of this Society for many 

 years ; a valued member of the Committee on Vegetables ; a 

 skilful cultivator of vegetables ; the originator of the Belmont 

 Strawberry ; a lover and grower of roses ; a good friend ; a pleas- 

 ant and honest man, and one of the class of men who have made 

 Arlington and Belmont the. market garden of Boston. It was 

 voted that a delegation from the Society attend the funeral of Mr. 

 Heustis, and that their expenses be paid by the Society. 



Charles N. Brackett, Chairman of the Committee on Vegetables, 

 read the Annual Report of that Committee. 



William E. Endicott, Chairman of the Library Committee, read 

 the Annual Report of that Committee. 



William C. Stroug, member from this Society of the Board of 

 Control of the State Agricultural Experiment Station, read a re- 

 port of the doings of the Station. 



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

 Gardening, read the Annual Report of that Committee. 



Robert Manning read his Annual Report as Secretary and 

 Librarian. 



These reports were severally accepted and referred to the Com- 

 mittee on Publication. 



Joseph H. Woodford, from the Committee of Arrangements, 

 read a portion of the Annual Report of that Committee, which 

 was accepted and referred to the Committee for completion. 



It was voted that a committee of three be appointed by the 

 Chair to prepare a memorial of the late Mrs. Francis B. Hayes. 

 The Chair appointed as that Committee, Mrs. E. M. Gill, Mrs. 

 A. D. Wood, and Joseph H. Woodford. 



The Secretary laid before the Society' a circular from the Michi- 

 gan Horticultural Society, accompanied by a classification of 

 objects to be exhibited in the Horticultural Department of the 



