TRANSACTIONS 



OF THE 



H^nssachusettis liatticuUural ^ocietg. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, April 3, 1897. 

 A duly notified Stated Meeting of the Society was boklen today 

 at eleven o'clock, the President, Francis H. Appleton, in the 

 chair. 



Benjamin M. Watson, Chairman of the Committee to procure a 

 portrait of Ex-President Nathaniel T. Kidder, reported that the 

 Committee had performed that duty, and asked to be discharged. 

 The report was accepted and the Committee was discharged. 



The President read a communication from J. D. W. French, 

 Chairman of the Committee on Lectures and Publication, stating 

 that the Committee desire suggestions as to subjects and lectures 

 for another year ; also that a book is in the hands of the Secre- 

 tary where such suggestions can be inscribed, and that the Com- 

 mittee desire the cooi^eration of the members in making the 

 lectures as far as possible instructive and entertaining. 



Charles E. Richardson read his Annual Report as Treasurer for 

 the year 1896, which was accepted, adopted, and ordered to be 

 printed. 



O. B. Hadwen announced the decease of Edward Winslow 

 Lincoln, an Honorary Member of this Society, and for thirty-five 

 years Secretary of the Worcester County Horticultural Society, 

 and who had devoted his life to the advancement of Horticulture, 

 and moved the appointment by the Chair of a committee to pre- 

 pare memorial resolutions. The motion was carried, and the Chair 



