TRANSACTIONS 



1909, PART I. 



INAUGURAL MEETING. 



The Inaugural Meeting of the Massachusetts HorticuUural 

 Society for the year 1909 was held at Horticultural Hall, Boston, 

 on Saturday, January 2, at twelve o'clock, noon. 



President Stephen M. Weld presided and opened the meeting 

 with the delivery of the following inaugural address : 



Inaugural Address of President Weld. 



To the Members of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society: 



In entering upon the duties of President of your Society for the 

 new year, to which office you have kindly chosen me for the third 

 time, there are a few remarks which I should like to make to the 

 Society. 



In the first place, I wish to refer to the fact that we are still 

 spending more money than we get from our income, which is not a 

 business-like proposition. We have cut down expenses very much 

 from what they were a few years ago, and it will take but a small 

 increase in our income to put us in a proper position. The past 



