72 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Conniiittee appointed at the hist meetiug to uomiiiate a 

 Committee on Window Gardening, reported the names of the 

 following members : — 



Mrs. Henrietta L. T. AVolcott, Chairman, 

 E. H. Hitchings, Edmund Hersey, 



Henr}' L. Clapp, George A, Parker, 



M. B. Faxon, Miss Mary L. Vinal. 



The report was accepted and the persons named therein were 

 unanimously elected. 



The Committee appointed on the 3d of January to nominate a 

 candidate to fill the vacancy in the Committee on Vegetables, 

 reported the name of Joseph H. "Woodford, who was unanimously 

 elected. 



The following named persons having been recommended by the. 

 Executive Committee for membership in the Society were upon 

 ballot duly elected. 



William P. Pakk, of West Boxford, 



Warren Howard Heustis, of Belmont, 



Charles W. Prescott, of Concord, 



Charles E. Weld, of Roslindale. 



Adjourned to Saturday, Fel)ruary 14. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Chrvsantiiemums. 



By John Thorpe, President of the American Chrysautheiuum Society, 

 Pearl River, N. Y. 



If it had been predicted ten years ago that the Chrysanthemum 

 would attain to the position it now holds, it would have been said 

 that such a thing was impossible. Let us for a moment look about 

 for the cause of the cluTsanthemum's popularity. It did not come 

 in a night, a week, or a year, but it has taken twenty years to bring- 

 about what we are enjoying tod;iy. 



When Robert Fortune sent to England his first consignment 

 from Japan it was there that the first spark was kindled. An 

 intelligent minority were far-seeing and wise enough not to be dis- 

 heartened or put down l)y the many who were wedded to the 

 paucity of form and color possessed by the puritanical varieties of 



