8 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



year our expenses exceeded our receipts by about $1600.00 and I 

 hope that in the coming year this deficit can be wholly made up. 

 I urge you all to bear in mind how much we need funds and how 

 much we need additional members. 



Twenty-seven new members have been elected during the year. 

 The membership of the Society is 827 and it would be desirable to 

 increase the number. A little extra effort on the part of all interested 

 should be made to bring the membership up to 1000. 



We have been called upon during the year to record the death of 

 twenty-four of our members among whom are many who have 

 been actively identified with the Society's affairs for many years, 

 and we recall their names at this time in appreciative remembrance. 



The roll contains the names of Mrs. Lydia B. Manning, the widow 

 of our late well-known member, Jacob W. Manning; Robert B. 

 Leuchars, one of our oldest members, having joined the Society in 

 1852, and for many years prominent as a horticulturist and land- 

 scape gardener; William H. Spooner, an ex-President of the Society, 

 and a member since 1855, who had devoted a half-century of active 

 and valuable service to our work; Warren W. Rawson, a member 

 since 1873, widely known for his success as a cultivator of vege- 

 tables under glass, and always actively interested in all that per- 

 tained to the Society's welfare; Charles E. Richardson, a member 

 since 1865, and our faithful Treasurer for sixteen years; and 

 Joshua Coolidge of Watertown, a generation ago an exliibitor of 

 the products of his farm at our exhibitions. 



Among others we have also in remembrance at this time George 

 W. Hammond, Charles H. Dalton, Henry W^ Dodd, Richard 

 Harding Weld, Franklin Haven, Warren Ewell, John Murray 

 Brown, Milton Andros, Ezra H. Wheeler, Andrew C. Wheelwright, 

 Edward P. Motley, Mrs. Susan E. French, Emil Johansson, John 

 C. Daly, Andrew Washburn, William Lumb, Robert M. Barnard, 

 and George W. W. Dove; all of whom have lent a hand on their 

 way through life. 



There have been held during the year thirteen exhibitions of 

 plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables which have been of more 

 than the usual excellence. The public interest in these has been 

 well sustained, and I feel sure that the prestige of the Society in 

 this respect has been kept u]i to the high standard of past years. 



