TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, January 2, 1897. 

 A stated meeting of the Society was holclen today at eleven 

 o'clock, the President in the chair. 



This being the commencement of the terra of ofl&ce of the new 

 board of officers and Standing Committees, the President, Fran- 

 cis H. Appleton, delivered the usual annual address, as follows : 



Address of President Appleton. 



Felloiv-memhers of the Massachusetts Horticidtural Society : 



We find ourselves in the same location and within the same 

 building at the commencement of a new year, during which I 

 shall continue, through your votes, to have the honor and respon- 

 sibility of presiding for a second term, and of endeavoring to do 

 my part, under our constitution, to perform the duties of the 

 office. 



One year ago today I said to you, in part, that its founders 

 did not suppose '' that this Society would exist to see the day 

 when it had outgrown the arrangements which were made for it 

 by their successors, upon this site, only thirty (now thirty-one) 

 years ago." I now repeat that statement, as applicable today as 

 then. 



Your chosen officials have had this subject under consideration 

 during the past year, and are still unable to present any recom- 

 mendation, with a view to improving our home, for your favor- 

 able consideration. In this I believe your Committee to be 

 unanimous. 



