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Harvest, in the m^^sterious laboratories of nature, for the suste- 

 nance and perpetuation of vegetable life. Thus the soils which 

 sustain our majestic forests have been enriched for ages, and 



*• Thus ever from out old decay 

 A new creation springs." 



Adjourned. 



SECOND DAY. 



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The forenoon of Thursday was occupied by a business meeting 

 of the Society, which was held in the room of the Committee on 

 Agriculture. 



The President in the chair. 



The reports of the Treasurer and of the Executive Committee, 

 for the year ending Dec. 31, 1873, were severally presented and 

 accepted. 



The committee appointed at the annual meeting at Bangor, to 

 revise the by-laws, presented their report, recommending sundry 

 amendments. The report was accepted, acted upon in detail and 

 adopted. (For by-laws, as amended, see appendix.) 



It was voted expedient to hold an exhibition in the autumn of 

 the present year, provided arrangements can be made satisfactory 

 to the Executive Committee. 



Judge Gilbert, of Bath, offered the following order, and moved 

 that it lie upon the table for consideration at a future meeting, 

 viz. : 



Ordered, That there be a standing committee on Nomenclature, 

 to be raised or filled in case of vacancy, in such manner as the 

 Society shall order, whose duty it shall be to determine and report 

 the true standard names of all old varieties of fruits which the 

 Society may from time to time recommend for general or local cul- 

 tivation ; and to report names to be given to such new varieties 

 as shall be so recommended. And it shall be the further duty of 

 said. committee to make, or cause to be made, at the expense of 

 the Society, upon some durable kind of paper suitable for perma- 

 nent binding, and submit, with their reports of names, exact out- 

 line figures of central sections of apples and pears, with stem, 

 calyx and core, which shall be so recommended as aforesaid ; in 

 all cases selecting for that purpose such samples as best represent, 

 in size and form, the true types of the several kinds, under good 



