150 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, November 6, 1897. 

 Au adjourned meeting of the Society was holden today at eleven 

 o'clock, the President, Francis M. Appleton, in the chair. 



The following memorial of Samuel H. Payson was read by Ben- 

 jamin C. Clark, Chairman of tlie Committee appointed at the meet- 

 ing on Saturday, September 4, to prepare au expression of the 

 feelings of the Society on his death : 



Samuel R. Payson. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Society desires to place upon 

 its records a deep-felt expression of its sefise of loss in the decease 

 of Mr. Samuel R. Payson, one of its oldest, most useful, and most 

 honored members. 



Mr. Payson was a many sided man, a most eminent and public 

 spirited Boston merchant, and a true Christian gentleman. His 

 leading characteristics were thoroughness, capacity, benevolence, 

 and integrity. Familiar to an unusual degree with all his vast 

 collection of fruits and |)lants, it was his pleasure conscientiously 

 and generously to share with the public his enjoyment of them. 



When called upon to bear heavy pecuniary losses through the 

 fault of others, he patiently submitted, and disaster only seemed, 

 in his case, to prove a stimulus to efforts which ultimately resulted 

 in the full discharge of every obligation. 



Faithful in the discharge of every duty, diligent in business, 

 combining great sagacity with incorruptible integrity and an 

 uprightness which never wavered, aiding always in promoting 

 the aims and objects of our Society, he has gone to his rest in the 

 fulness of years, leaving a meraor}' which will be most cherished 

 by those who knew him best and longest. 



Benj. C. Clark, \ 



Wm. H. Spooner, [- Committee. 



Walter Hunnewell, ) 



The memorial was unanimously adopted. 



The President, as Chairman of the Executive Committee, re- 

 ported from that Committee a recommendation that the Society 

 appropriate the following named sums for Prizes and Gratuities 



