154 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, December 18, 1897. 

 An adjourned meeting of tlie Society was holden at eleven 

 o'clock toda}', the President, Francis H. Appletox, in the chair. 



On motion of Joseph H. Woodford, it was 



Voted, That the Annual Reports of the several awarding 

 committees, etc., be accepted and referied to the Committee on 

 Publication, without reading. 



The following named reports were then presented and so referred : 



The Annual Report of the Committee on Plants, by Azell C. 

 Bowditch, Chairman. 



The Annual Report of the Committee on Flowers, by J. Wood- 

 ward Manning, Chairman. 



The Annual Report of the Committee on Vegetables, by Charles 

 N. Brackett, Chairman. 



The Annual Report of the Committee of Arrangements, 133- 

 Joseph H. Woodford, Chairman. 



The Annual Report of the Committee on the Library, by William 

 E. Endicott, Chairman. 



The Annual Report of the Secretary and Libriirian, by Robert 

 Manning, Secretary and Librarian. 



The meeting was then dissolved. 



