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Best seedling parti-colored daUia, three dollars. Best self-colored, 

 three dollars. Best design of cut ilowers, twenty dollars. Next best, fif- 

 teen dollars. Next best, ten dollars. 



November. — Best chrysanthemums, 12 varieties, three dollars. Best 

 seedling, three dollars. 



December. — Best seedling peach, pear, plum, apple, cherry or grape, 

 during the year 1843, five dollars each. Also $"200, to be appropriated 

 for the introduction of new plants, &.C., agreeably to the report above. 



The whole amounting to upwards of $600. This is certainly affording 

 good encouragement to the members, and we no longer wonder at tlie 

 astonishing increase of this excellent institution. 



The objects exhibited at this meeting, were Camellias, Cypripedium 

 veniistum, Rondeletm, specosa, and other plants, by R. Buist. Camel- 

 lias, roses, &c., by Ritchie & Dick. Maxillaria picta, and a beautiful 

 species of Lselia, from Peter Raabe. Lselia Barkerz'ajia, in fine bloom 

 from W. Chalmers, Sen. {Soc. Report.) 



Art. IV. Massachiisetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, December 31, I8i2.— Exhibited— Fmit: From B. V. Frencli. 

 Pennock's Red Winter, Baldwin, BellfloAver, Flushing Seek-no-Further, 

 and one variety without name ; tlie specimens were fine, particularly the 

 Baldwins : the Flushing Seek-no-furtlier was considered one of the best 

 apples cultivated. From E. Tufts, Cambridgeport, handsome Baldwin 

 and Roxbury Russett apples. 



January 7, 1843. — The quarterly stated meeting of the Society was held 

 to-day — the President in the chair, and the following business was trans- 

 acted. 



The committee appointed to examine the books and accounts of the 

 Mount Auburn Association, reported that tliey had attended to that duty 

 in part ; but owmg to the Treasurer's books not being quite ready, they had 

 made an arrangement for a settlement in a few days, and would make 

 their report at the adjourned meeting. 



Prof Russell made a report in relation to the seeds committed to his 

 care : the report was accepted and placed in the hands of the publishing 

 committee, to publish such parts of it as they deem proper, in the forth- 

 coming Transactions of the Society for ] 842. 



It was then voted that the President, J. E. Teschemacher, Prof. Russell, 

 and W. E. Carter, be a committee to distribute the seeds, and that they 

 also be requested to procure a suitable return of seeds to reciprocate fa- 

 vors, as advised in Prof Russell's report. 



The President then read a letter from Mr. Brookhouse, of Salem, ask- 

 ing the aid of the Society in any manner most agreeable to them, whereby 

 the family of its late respected member, Mr. Manning, may be relieved 

 from the incumbrances now resting on the homestead and nursery. 



It was voted that the subject be referred to a special committee of five. 



