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and agricultural science, and for the promotion of rural taste. " Let us 

 nobly maintain," said he, " the high distinction claimed by this Society, 

 of having been first in the introduction and promotion of that taste 

 which embellishes the lawns, and gardens, and mansions, and cottages, 

 that environ this queenly city, and which has given to us a Spring 

 Grove Cemetery, whose quiet beauty, as the resting place of the dead, is 

 destined soon to rival, if not to surpass, the far-famed Greenwood and 

 Mount Auburn." 



Speaking of the importance of our cultivation of the beautiful about 

 our rural homes, the president handsomely remarked, that " This love 

 of the beautiful ought to be cultivated, not only as it may afford gratifi- 

 cation to the eye, but also as a source of moral refinement, the friend to 

 virtue, and the foe to vice. Home should be associated in the expe- 

 rience and memory of childhood with all that is lovely and attractive — 

 flowers, and paintings, and music. The vine over the door, the evergreen 

 on the lawn, the plant in the window, the luscious o'erhanging fruit in 

 orchard and garden, which so often has gladdened by its hue, and regaled 

 with its fragrance and taste, all consecrated by the presence of parental 

 love and domestic affection, furnish images of loveliness and purity to 

 the plastic mind of childhood, which, lingering in memory, hover around 

 the inner sanctuaries of the soul, and oft, amid the tempests of grief, 

 and the desolations of age, will come like ministering spirits to revive 

 the joys of other days, and spread a heavenly halo around the spot our 

 hearts call our home ! " 



On motion of Mr. Ernst, a copy of the president's address was 

 requested for publication. 



J. K. Green, was appointed Secretary, pro tern. 



Fruit Committee. — The Society elected Messrs. Jackson, Hooper, 

 Mc Williams, and Warder, the standing committee on fruit. 



Flowers. — Standing committee on flowers : Messrs. Jackson, Saun- 

 ders, Sleath, Evans, and Hutchinson. 



Vegetables. — Standing committee on vegetables: Messrs. Worthing- 

 TON, Pentland, Consadine, S a vers, and Foote. 



On motion, ordered, that the discussion on northern fruits be post- 

 poned one week. 



Mw Members. — Mr. George Brooks, and Mr. S. W. Hazeltine were 

 elected to membership. 



Mr. Buchanan said, that in view of the remarkable nature of the 

 present winter, and the importance of meteorological observations in 

 general, he hoped a record would be kept by the Society, of all extraor- 

 dinary meteorological changes, for convenience of reference hereaiter. 



