142 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, July 3, 1897. 

 A duly uotified Stated Meetiug of the Society was holden today 

 at eleveu o'clock. lu the absence of the President and all the 

 Vice-Presidents, the meeting was called to order by the Secretary, 

 and Ex-Presideut William H. Spooner was elected Cbairmau 

 pro tern. 



The Chairman read a letter from John G. Barker, Chairman 

 of the Committee on Gardens, resigning his membership of that 

 Committee, on account of necessary absence from Boston, and 

 thanking the Society most heartily for the honor conferred on him 

 in electing him for many successive j^ears to important positions on 

 the Flower and Garden Committees. The resignation was ac- 

 cepted, and Patrick Norton was nominated from the floor to fill 

 the vacancy, and elected. 



The Chairman presented a report from the Executive Committee, 

 to whom was referred at the April meeting the subject of awards 

 to persons not members of the Society', recommending that the 

 subject be laid on the table. The report was accepted and adopted. 



O. B. Hadwen, Chairman of the Committee to prepare a memorial 

 of the late Edward Winslow Lincoln, of Worcester, an Honorary 

 Member of this Society, presented the following report : 



Memorial of Edward Wikslow Lincoln. 



In the death of Edward Winslow Lincoln, of Worcester, this 

 Society has lost an Honorary Member distinguished for his services 

 to Horticulture during the last thirty-five years. Endowed with a 

 natui-al as well as a highly cultivated taste, improved by his long 

 term of service as Chairman of the Parks Commission of the City 

 of Worcester and Secretary of the Worcester County Horticultural 

 Society, his annual reports of each have abundantly manifested 

 his strong love of assisting Nature, in gardens, parks, and land- 

 scapes. The influence of his life work has stimulated the adorn- 

 ment of horticulture in public and private places, and the landscape 

 situated within the scope of his influence is graced with additional 

 charms which he loved to encourage. 



The science, the practice, and the literature of Horticulture have 



