194 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, August 1, 1896. 

 An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at eleven 

 o'clock, the President, Francis H. Appleton, in the cliair. 



Agreeably to the Constitution and By-Laws the President an- 

 nounced the following Committee to nominate candidates for Offi- 

 cers and Standing Committees of the Society for the next year : 



William H. Spoonek, Chairman. 

 Benjamin M. Watson, Patrick Norton, 



Samuel Hartwell, Henry W. Wilson, 



Benjamin P. Ware, C. Minot Weld 



Adjourned to Saturday, September 5. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, Septeraber 5, 1896. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden today at 

 eleven o'clock. The President and all the Vice-Presidents being 

 absent, the meeting was called to order by the Secretary, and Ex- 

 President William H. Spooner was chosen Chairman pro tern. 



Mr. Spooner, as Chairman of the Committee to nominate candi- 

 dates for Officers and Standing Committees for the year 1897, 

 reported a printed list, which was accepted, and it was voted that 

 the Committee be continued and requested to nominate candidates 

 in place of any who might decline before the election. 



The meeting was then dissolved. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, October 3, 1896. 

 A Stated Meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, 

 being the Annual Meeting for the choice of Officers and Standing 

 Committees, was holden today at eleven o'clock, the President, 

 Francis H. Appleton, in the chair. 



