188 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



ESTIMATK OF SoCIETy's PROPERTY. 



Original purchase and Bradlee Hall, . . $36,000 00 



Additional purchase in 1852, . . . 12,000 00 



Furniture of Hall and Library Room, . 4,029 00 



Permaiunt Funds : — 



Appleton, .... $1,000 00 



Lyman, .... 1,000 00 



Lowell, .... 1,000 00 



Bradlee, .... 1,000 00 



Lyman, (new, in stocks,) . . 10,230 00 



14,230 00 



Twenty shares in Portland, Saco and Ports. R. R., 2,000 00 



#68,259 00 



The Society now owes in mortgages and notes, . . 20,800 00 



The President reported that the committee, appointed for that purpose, 

 had decided to hold weekly meetings for the discussion of various subjects 

 connected with horticulture, commencing Saturday, January 15th, at 10 

 o'clock. 



Charles F. Cutter and E. S. Harmond, Somerville, were elected members. 



Adjourned one fortnight, to January 22d. 



Exhibited. — Flowers : From A. Bowditch and James Nugent, camellias. 



Fruit : From B. V. French, White Seek-no-Further and Conway apples. 

 From George Walsh, Le Cure pears. From Henry Vandine, Passe Colmar, 

 Rosewater and Le Cure pears. From E. Weight, Red Gilliflower and Red 

 Seek-no-Further apples. From D. Fosdick, Nonsuch and Baldwin apples, 

 and a variety without name. From A. Perkins, Groton, a seedling apple, 

 in eating since October. From S. Downer, Jr., Columbia and large Catillac 

 pears. From E, Holmes, Bullock's Pippin apples. 



January 22d. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day — 

 the President in the chair. 



On motion of C. M. Hovey, it was voted that the Executive Comnfittee 

 be requested to ascertain from Messrs. Ticknor & Co. the number of copies 

 of the Transactions of the Society now on hand, — the number sold, — and 

 the amount due the Society upon the same ; and that they be requested to 

 use their judgment in regard to the future sale and disposition of copies 

 which remain unsold. 



Dr. Wight read a letter from Mr. A. H. Ernst, accompanied with seeds 

 of the Japan peas ; and also a note from Mr. Teechemacher, upon the same. 

 The Letters are as follows : — 



" My Dear Sir : — I herewith send for your distribution amongst the mem- 

 bers of the M. H. Society, a small parcel of peas. 



The growth of the plant is peculiar, being of an upright and stiff form, 

 somewhat branching ; the leaves are large, light green, and downy beneath ; 

 the blossom is small and of a lilac color ; seed pods numerous, small and 

 wooly, — growing in clusters over the entire plant, proving very productive. 



Its habit of growth is such as to fit it to withstand severe storms ; and, 



