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The Hall of the Exchange was literally crowded with visitors, from 

 twelve to two. It was much regretted by the Committee of Arrange- 

 ments that a larger Hall had not been engaged for the occasion. 



At four o'clock, the Society, with their friends and invited guests, to 

 the number of nearly 100, set down to a sumptuous dinner, prepared 

 by Messrs Johnson & Castlehouse, when the following sentiments 

 were drunk. 



REGULAR TOASTS. 



1. Horticulture That rational and noble art, which regales and 

 delights nearly all the senses ; which nourishes a generous gratitude 

 to the author of all blessings ; and enables man to create a new Eden 

 in recompense of that which his first ancestor forfeited. 



2. Human Skill and Enlightened Cultivation They have changed 

 the Crab to the Newton Pippin the austere Mazzard to the Tarta- 

 rean and Bigarreau the Hog peach to the Noblesse and Vanguard. 



3. That art which makes all climates one which mocks at local 

 distinctions, and makes the tropics tributary to the comforts and 

 luxuries of Hyperborean regions which gives even to Russia the 

 Pine Apple and the Mangostein. 



4. Our Native Fruits May they be sought out with care and 

 judicious skill one Stckle will be a reward for ten years research. 

 Nature is our best preceptress, and where she points we may safely 

 follow. 



5. May our cultivators be distinguished rather by their deeds than 

 their icords. Select cautiously, but cultivate liberally. A good fruit 

 will reward labor. 



6. Let us encourage a taste for Flowers. God gave them to us for 

 our delight, and it is an omen of a cultivated age to encourage them. 

 They are the best apparel of the best part of human nature. 



7. The Curator of the Cambridge Garden, Thomas Nuttall modest 

 and unpretending few men have done more for American Botany 

 than he. 



8. Agriculture and Horticulture Allied Divinities, who cause the 

 Desert to teem with abundance, and the " Wilderness to blossom like 

 the Rose." 



9. Gardening In all its degrees and diversities, from the plat of 

 culinary vegetables, which embosoms the cottage of economy, to the 

 paradise of sweets which embowers the mansion of opulence. 



10. The Fair Sex and Floriculture 



While many a Fair, in youth and beauty's sheen, 

 Presides the Flora of the Sylvan scene, 

 Full many a flower shall boast its cultivator, 

 Herself the fairest, finest flower in nature. 



11. Historical Facts GOD made the first Garden Cain built the 

 first City. 



12. The Feast of Reason Gop made a world of good things and 

 it is man's duty, as well as his privilege, to make the most of them. 



13. The Empire of Man May it be enlarged by fresh acquisitions 

 from the vegetable kingdom. Every cultivated plant was once wild 

 may every wild plant, capable of being rendered useful, be culti- 



