ANNUAL MEETING FOR THE YEAR 1919. 



The Annual Meeting of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 for the year 1919 was held at Horticultural Hall, Boston, at twelve 

 o'clock, noon, on Saturday, No^'ember 15, with Vice-President 

 Kidder in the Chair. The call for the meeting was read by the 

 Secretary and the Chair appointed Messrs. E. B. Wilder, J. A. 

 Crosby, and W. P. Rich a committee to receive, assort, and count 

 the ballots, and to report the number. He then declared the polls 

 open, to remain open until three o'clock. 



The record of the preceding meeting of the Society was read by 

 the Secretary and duly approved. The Chair announced that the 

 following appropriations for prizes and exhibitions for the year 

 1920 had been made and approved by the Board of Trustees: 



Society's appropriation for six exhibitions, $7,500, to include the 

 income of the special prize fmids. 



A contribution of $1,000 for four additional exhibitions offered 

 by Miss Marian R. Case of Weston to l)e entered under the heading 

 of Hillcrest Prizes. 



An appropriation $300 for children's garden prizes. 



At three o'clock the Chair declared the polls closed and Mr. 

 Wilder, for the committee, reportefl the result of the balloting as 

 follows: 



Whole number of ballots cast 26. 



For President, William C. Endicott had 22. 



For Vice-President (for two years), Charles S. Sargent had 18. 



For Trustees (for three years), Albert C. Burrage had 26; Ernest 

 B. Dane, 26; Edwin S. Webster, 26; Fred A. Wilson, 19. 



For Trustee (for two years), Arthur H. Fewkes had 22. 



For Nominating Committee, Oakes Ames" received 2.3; William 

 Anderson, 26; John K. ^\. L. Farquhar, 26; Samuel J. Goddard, 

 26; John E. Thayer, 26. 



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