Excerpt from Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, Vol. 1: For the Year 1916 The Transactions of the Society are issued annually in two parts under the direction of the Committee on Lectures and Publications. Communications relating to the Objects of the Society, its publi cations, exhibitions, and membership, may be addressed to William P. Rich, Secretary, Horticultural Hall, no. 300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts. 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.