TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



1908, PART II. 



REPORT OF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES FOR THE 



YEAR 1908. 



The Board of Trustees of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, in accordance with the requirement of the By-laws, pre- 

 sents herewith its fifth annual report. 



There have been held during the year seven meetings with an 

 average attendance of eight members. 



January 4. Several communications were presented expressing 

 the regrets of the writers that they would be unable to serve on the 

 standing committees on which they had been appointed at the 

 pre\ious meeting. The vacancy in the chairmanship of the Com- 

 mittee on Lectures and Publications was filled by the appointment 

 of Mr. Pettigrew, and it was voted that the vacancies existing in 

 other committees be filled by the members of the several com- 

 mittees. 



The following recommendations were received from the Com- 

 mittee on Prizes and Exliibitions : 



1. That Rule 26 of the General Rules and Regulations of the 

 Schedule, relating to protests, be discontinued and that a rule be 

 substituted providing that all decisions of the several exliibition 

 committees relating to awards of prizes shall be final. 



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