Transaction of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for the Year 1894, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Transaction of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for the Year 1894, Vol. 1 But to go back to your standing committees. Here the natural tendency is to be guided by precedent - habit. And here I think, perhaps, is where a limit of term might be applied. Again, not as an inviolable rule, and in this, as in the President's case, I should advise more than two years, but, perhaps, say four. No one's feelings need be hurt if there were some understanding that changes were to be the rule rather than the exception. You do not care to have me give you a mass of statistics Show ing the condition of the Society. Its condition is much the same as last year, the losses sustained through the hard times tell, of course, to a considerable extent, and the possibility of further losses must be borne in mind. We should always be on the defensive in this respect. It is a year since the Executive and Finance committees were asked to try to find you more room. The question, already diffi cult, has been made more so by the panic, and I hope you will not doubt my word that every effort within reason has been made, and that you will still trust the matter in the same hands. Meanwhile I think it should be our policy to do the best we can with what we have. It cannot be said that any needed repairs have been neglected during the past year. Only while we are talking of the possibility of decided improvement, we do not want to go to any unnecessary expense on the present property. Glancing at the Treasurer's membership list, we see that we have now 789 members - six more than a year ago. But looking at our records for twenty years past we see that the number used to be much larger. I cannot let this opportunity go by of asking you all to lend a hand in conducting the business of the Society. I refer especially, perhaps I do not need to tell you, to the frequent difficulty in getting a quorum at your business meetings. I shall try to express my gratitude to you for your trust in me by my work in this new year. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.