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Mr. Hunt would not depart from its being a stock company, there 
appeared to be no alternative but to comply with his requirements. 
The Society deemed that they were not united for such a purpose, 
and it was therefore proposed to alter the title of the ‘ Act’ before 
the Legislature, so as to read ‘The Hunt Botanical Garden,’ and 
to surrender the same to a Board of Trustees, to be appointed by 
the incorporators. This course was unanimously adopted by a 
‘resolution’ of the Society. 
“The Society felt fully justified in the course they had adopted, 
believing that it would be more successfully carried out by those 
to whom they had transferred the power. Thus terminated the 
action and control of this Society, and the subscriptions obtained 
by the Society, were placed at the disposal of the new Association. 
It now rests with that incorporated body to give such enlighten- 
ment as the Society and the subscribers to the stock of the garden, 
have a right to require. And I have no doubt but the Trustees 
will present, to all interested, a full and impartial history of their 
proceedings, as soon as they are in a position to accomplish it. 

“Tt is useless to disguise that blighted hopes and disappointed 
expectations, have thrown their shadows over the once-brilliant 
enterprise, which was so well calculated to become one of our city’s 
most beautiful adornments, as well as most pre-eminently useful 
in aid of botanical research, and it must be a source of deep regret 
to all who feel a deep and abiding interest in the improvement and 
character of our rapidly-advancing city, with a population of full 
two hundred thousand. To what have we to direct the distin- 
guished visitors, as matters of art and genius? We have our 
Greenwood, and when the stranger casts his eye over this most 
beautiful abode of the dead, he is ready to return satisfied that he 
has seen all worthy of special notice in the third city of the Union, 
except what the most bountiful hand of Nature has most liberally 
bestowed upon us. 
“And yet we cannot say that public spirit has no altar where 
the love of botany and horticulture are enshrined, as long as we 
have such names to gild our page, as Stranahan, Langley, Sand- 
ford, Maxwell, Towt, Dunham, Cruikshank, Kent, Smith, Perry, 
Spencer and Litchfield, who have shown by their public munifi- 
