386 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Russell. Very large apples from Prof. Farrar, Cambridge. William 

 Oliver exhibited specimens of the Tyson pear, which has proved to be an 

 excellent pear, and may be classed among the best varieties. Mr. War- 

 ren exhibited a number of varieties of apples, which were received by 

 him from Rhode Island, many of them fine specimens. There was also 

 a great number of peaches and apples exhibited by different individuals, 

 some for a name, and many of them seedlings. Every year brings with 

 it a multitude of seedlings, and fruits unnamed, very ^e'w of which pos- 

 sess sufficient merit to entitle them to a place among named varieties. 



September lith. — The Society held an adjourned meeting, the President 

 in the chair. Messrs. B. V. French, C. Newhall and S. Walker were 

 chosen delegates to visit the New Haven Horticultural Society's annual 

 exhibition. The Chairman, in behalf of the Building Committee, placed 

 at the disposal of the Society a silver plate, to be placed under the comer 

 stone of the Society's new hall, with certain documents and transactions 

 of the Society. Whereupon it was Resolved, That tlie Society adjourn 

 this meeting to the site of their new building in School Street, and that 

 the President, M. P. Wilder, Esq. be requested to perform the duty of 

 laying the corner stone, depositing the plate, documents, &c. and to offer 

 such remarks as he may deem suitable to the occasion. 



The plate was of silver, 8 by 6 inches, and bore the following inscrip- 

 tion : 



[on the obverse.] 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



INCORPORATED THE 12TH DAY OF JUNE, A. D. 1S29. 



Present number of Members, — Four Hundred and Twenty. 



President — Marshall P. Wilder. 



Vice Presidents — B. V. French, Jona. Winship, Cheever Newhall, E. M. 



Richards. 



Treasurer — Samuel Walker. 



Corresponding Secretary — J. E. Teschemacher. 



Recording Secretarif — Dbenezer Wight. 



Professor of Botany and Fegetahle Physiology — John Lewis Russell, A. M. 



Professor of Entomology — T. W. Harris, M. D. 



Professor of Horticultural Chemistry — S. L. Dana, M. D. 



Committee on Fruits. — Samuel Walker, Chairman : P. B. Hovey, Jr., 



O. Johnson, S. Pond, J. Loveit, 2d., L. P. Grosvenor, Jona. Winship, D. 



Haggerston, J. L. L. F. Warren, J. F. Allen, A. D. Williams. 



Committee on Floivers. — Joseph Breck, Chairman : H. W. Dutton, S. 

 Sweetser, S. R. Johnson, J. Stickney, W. E. Carter, P. Barnes. 



Cojiimittee on Vegetables. — J. A. Kenrick, Chairman: W. B. Kings- 

 bury, J. H. Billings, S. C. Mann, J. C. Howard, A. Bowditch, John Hill. 

 Committee on the Library. — C. M. Hovey, Chairmaii : C. K. Dillaway, 

 F. G. Shaw, J. E. Teschemacher, E. Wight, R. M. Copeland. 



Committee on Synonyms of Fruit. — M. P. Wilder, Chairman: S. Dow- 

 ner, W. Kenrick," B. V. French. 



Erecutive Committee. — M. P. Wilder, Chairman : Enoch Bartlett, A. 

 Aspinwall, F. W. Macondry, J. J. Low. 



Finance Committee. — E. Vose, Chairman: Cheever Newhall, E. AL 

 Richards. 



