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The land on which the building stood has become a part of the 

 garden of David Taylor, Esq. ; the apparatus and library have been 

 sold or distributed; the building has been removed to Main street, 

 opposite the Lynn Hotel ; the pine desks, somewhat elaborately 

 carved, wei»e used by the carpenter for purposes, in which planing 

 was dispensed with ; the chairs, with understandings impaired by hard 

 study, were sold or stored; the eagle which surmounted the little 

 tower is in possession of Trevett M. Rhodes, Esq., and the bell is re- 

 served as an heirloom of the graduates of the institution. 



Notwithstanding the disadvantages of its mode of organization, 

 many excellent scholars were in that school prepared for college and 

 for the higher pursuits in life, and all who have been in any manner 

 Identified with its interests, regret the necessity of its extinction. 



The Chair, in speaking of his visit to a garden in this place alluded 

 to the great change in horticultural tastes within a few years past. 

 Plants and flowers that were great fiivorites thirty years ago, are now 

 hard to find. He mentioned that a few weeks since he wished to ob- 

 tain a specimen of the curled leaved mallows, Ilalva crinita, which 

 was once common in the gardens, but his research was fruitless after 

 having made extensive enquiries of the gardeners and those who are 

 interested in these subjects. 



C. M. Tracy of Lynn, being called upon, said that some remarks 

 just made by the chair had struck him as highly appropriate to the 

 occasion. The chair had spoken of the disappeai'ance of the old and 

 favorite flowers from the gardens, and this was matter of remark to 

 all gardeners and of regret to most. It was highly doubtful whether 

 many of the flowers now fashionable and sold for high prices, ought 

 really to take higher rank for beauty than the older sorts they have 

 displaced. The old white rose, sometimes called the New England 

 rose, has never found a successful rival, and is still sought after by 

 discriminating florists, though now comparatively rare. Who does 

 not remember the gorgeous poppies that used to adorn the gardens 

 with their short-lived splendors ? We have not replaced them with 

 anything better. Then there were morning-glories, the only climber 

 we had almost, the best, sifrely, and so good that it cannot be wholly 

 given up, though not half as well attended to as it deserves. The 

 ragged-ladies, and bachelor's-buttons, and honesties, used to make a 

 beauty and variety in the front yards of the countiy that we see 

 nothing of to-day, whatever be the effort to make good the loss with 

 verbenas, petunias, and costly pinks. The Jiollyhocks were once the 

 monarchs of the flower-bed, and ruled most royally. They are still 

 grown, it is true, but grown for prizes at shows, and we do not see 

 them making glad the surroundings of home as we once did. If we 

 read in the old books on this subject, as in Gerard's and the like, we 



