TRANSACTIONS 



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assarl^nsetts ^nrtiailtural Bmd^. 



BUSINESS :MEETiyG. 



Saturday, January 4, 1896. 

 A duly notified stated meeting of tlie Society was holden at 

 eleven o'clock, the chair being taken by President Xathakiel 



T. KiDDEK. 



This being the commencement of the term of office of the new 

 board of officers and Committees, the retiring President, with ap- 

 propriate remarks, introduced the President-elect, Fraxcis H. 

 Appleton, who delivered the usual inaugural address, as follows : 



Address of President Appleton. 



Felloic-Memhers of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society : 



Twenty-five years ago this year I was sufficiently inoculated 

 with the germ of fondness for, and in interest in, those branches 

 of horticulture which are, in varied form, the charge and care of 

 this Society under legislative assignment, to request that my 

 name be presented for Life Membership, and I feel that had I 

 been called upon to pay fifty dollars, instead of thirty dollars, 

 for my Certificate it would not have been too much. 



The possibilities for helpfulness to the individual who is in- 

 terested in horticulture, and usefulness to horticulture in general, 

 of this Society, are great — indeed much greater than is possible 

 in this present building. 



I feel that, in the several branches represented by our Com- 

 mittees, our Society can do more than is now possible, or is now 

 our custom to do, to enlarge and advance the sphere of the 



