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Practically the entire wholesale trade is concentrated 

 in Wintlirop Square. Here are located the two exten- 

 sive co-operative flower markets, and the big wholesale 

 flower and supply houses of Welch Bros., N. F. Mc- 

 Carthy & Co. and several others. During the busy sea- 

 son a tremendous amount of floral product representing 

 jiundreds of growers in New England are marketed daily 

 in Wintlirop Square and an early morning visit even now 

 will fully repay the trouble. 



Before closing these trade notes we must not forget 

 the seedsmen. The seed trade of Boston is done entirely 

 in the section adjacent to the public markets, in South 

 Market and North Market streets and Paneuil Hall 

 Square, an unique and interesting part of the old city 

 The extensive market gardening industry of the sur- 

 rounding country and the many highly developed private 

 estates whose supplies are secured here, demand a very 

 liigh quality of seed and while Boston does not figure 

 materially in the big wholesale and agricultural seed in- 

 dustry of the country yet when it comes to quality tlic 

 Boston seedsmen go the full limit. 



Massachusetts Horticultural Society 



The ^Massachusetts Horticultural Society, organized 

 on March 17, 1829, was, so far as recorded, the fifth 

 organization of the kind in this country. Of its prede- 

 cessors, only one — the Pennsylvania Horticultural So- 

 ciety — existed beyond a few years. Before the end o( 

 its first year the Massachusetts Horticultural Society 

 boasted 249 members. Gen. H. A. S. Dearborn was the 

 first president. At that date Boston had only been an 

 incorporated city seven years, witli a population of 

 60,000. 



It may be interesting to note here that the establish- 

 ment of Jit. Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, the first 

 ornamental rural cemetery in the United States, was 

 the first enterprise under the auspices of the Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society. Unrivalled in its natural 

 sylvan beauty and for the number of eminent men and 

 women who repose beneath the shade of its majestic 

 groves, this consecrated city of the dead will be found 

 full of interest by those who liave time and opportunity 

 to visit it. 



Horticultural Hall, the headquarters of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society — the finest structure de- 

 voted to horticulture in this country, is located on the 

 corner of Huntington avenue and Massachusetts avenue, 



The Olu Liberty Elm. 

 Standing at corner of Green and Rocliview streets, Jamaica 

 Plain, Boston, this grand old monarch attracts the attention of 

 thousands. Its history is shrouded in obscurity and no authen- 

 tic account of its age is extant. Much speculation has been 

 rife as to its age. A safe and sane conclusion is that it is about 

 1!00 years ago. Whether the legends regarding the part it played 

 in Kevolutionary times are authentic or not, the fact remains 

 tliat it is "monarch of all it surveys." 



a few blocks south of Mechanics Building where the 

 Convention is held. In this building many notable 

 floral exhibitions of recent years have been held. 

 Within it is housed one of the largest and most valuable 

 horticultural libraries in the world. The Massachu- 

 setts Horticultural Society has ever been true to its trust 

 and its halls have at all times been placed at the disposal, 

 without charge, of kindred societies for their meetings 

 and exhibitions. When the S. A. F. last met in Boston, 

 24 years ago, the Horticultural Society generously do- 

 nated the use of their halls — then located on Tremont 

 street, for the use of the National Society, and a sim- 

 ilar privilege would have been extended on this occa- 

 sion had the building been large enough for the jiresent 



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