12 3IASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



E. W. Wood was granted further time to prepare his report as 

 Delegate to the State Board of Agriculture. 



On motion of Ex-President William C. Strong, a vote of thanks 

 to the President for his annual address was unanimously passed, 

 the question being put by the Secretary. The President ex- 

 pressed his pleasure at the appreciation by the Societ}^ of his 

 efforts to serve it. 



E. W. Wood, Chairman of the Committee on Fruits, read docu- 

 ments looking to legislation for the prevention of the disease of 

 the peach known as " yellows." A motion that the Society take 

 part in the effort to secure such legislation was negatived, after 

 discussion by several members. 



The President read a letter from the Executive Committee of 

 the Boston Mycological Club, thanking the Society for the hospi- 

 tality extended to the Club, and expressing their high apprecia- 

 tion of its value ; without it they would hardly have been so 

 successful as they were in extending so widely the knowledge of 

 this branch of the Society's work, 



John Mutch, of Brookline, and 

 Henky S. Adams, of Dorchester, 



having been recommended by the Executive Committee for 

 membership in the Society, were on ballot duly elected. 



The President announced that the first of the series of weekly 

 lectures for the present season Avould be given on the next Satur- 

 day, by Professor George L. Goodale, of Harvard University ; 

 subject, " Tropical Horticulture," with stereopticon illustrations 

 of the principal Economic Plants of Hot Climates, and that the 

 lectures would be free to all. 



The meeting was then dissolved. 



MEETING FOR LECTURE AND DISCUSSION. 



Saturday, January 9, 1897. 



A meeting for Lecture and Discussion was liolden at eleven 

 o'clock today, the President, Francis H. Appletox, in the 

 chair. The lecture Avas on 



