238 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



course with the Board, always evinced such gentle, Christian 

 courtesy and marked zeal in advancing the agricultural inter- 

 ests of the Commonwealth, that his place cannot easily be 

 filled. His character was, in all ways, so beautiful, his 

 generosity so abounding, his charities conducted with such 

 modesty, the simplicity and loveliness of his nature were so 

 attractive, that the hearts of all men, in every walk in life, 

 who have known this excellent man. are filled with grief at 

 their bereavement. 



Jiesolved, That a copy of this resolution be communicated 

 to the family of the deceased. 



The resolutions Avere adopted unanimously by a rising 

 vote. 



Prof. GoESSMANN then submitted and read the 



SECOND REPOKT ON THE SALT MARSHES ABOVE THE MOUTH 

 OF GREEN HARBOR RIVER, IN THE TOWNSHIP OF MARSH- 

 FIELD, PLYMOUTH COUNTY, MASSACHUSETTS. 



In a previous report I stated the origin, the general 

 character and the agricultural history of a few successfully 

 reclaimed sea marshes of Europe, for the purpose of render- 

 ing more prominent some striking features of similarity which 

 exist between them and the recently diked marshes above the 

 mouth of the Green Harbor River in the township of Marsh- 

 field, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. I attempted, also, to 

 show somewhat in detail the gradual changes which the original 

 spontaneous vegetation was undergoing since the water of the 

 ocean has been excluded, in consequence of the construction 

 of an efficient dike, pointing out on the same occasion some 

 of the causes which seemed to control the still, varying or 

 broken-up aspect of the present natural growth in the differ- 

 ent sections of the salt marshes. 



Several analyses of soil, taken from different portions of 

 the latter, served to demonstrate quite conclusively that a 

 lack of any essential article of soil plant-food, in the present 

 stage of the salt meadows, could not be considered the real 

 cause of the unusual differences quite frequently noticeable 

 in the character and the value of plants growing in close 



