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character and useful life of Mr Lowell. The Hon. JOHN LOWELL 

 The uniform friend of all sorts of rural economy. 



By Rev. F. W. P. Greenwood. The cultivation of the earth, the mind 

 and the heart May they advance among us rapidly and simultaneously, 

 till our whole country blooms like Eden. 



By John C. Gray. Esq. 3d Vice President. The art of Horticulture, 

 which furnishes us with delicious but wholesome luxuries, and with 

 cheap but splendid ornaments ; may it never want encouragement in 

 a Republican and economical country. 



By Enoch Bartlett, Esq. 3d Vice President. Agriculture, Horti- 

 culture, and all other culture which ameliorates the condition of man. 



By a generous Patron of the Society. The United States may 

 their portion of the earth never be " subdued," but by the musket 

 turned into the ploughshare, and the sword into the pruning hook. 



By H. J. Finn. The Heraldry of English Horticulture. Great 

 Britain may be proud of her privilege to confer titles of nobility, but 

 nature bestowed a higher honor on its peerage, when she created a 

 KNIGHT. 



By Thomas Green Fessenden, Esq. Editor of the New England 

 Farmer. The greatest good of the greatest number. The whole world 

 a garden, hands enough to cultivate it, and mouths enough to consume 

 its productions. 



By a Guest. The rising generation ; may these tivigs be so trained 

 as to need but little trimming, become valuable standards, produce 

 fruits worthy & premium, and receive prizes at the great final exhibi- 

 tion. 



By a Guest. THOMAS A. KNIGHT, Esq., President of the London 

 Horticultural x .Society; the Genius and Philanthropist in the science of 

 Horticulture. 



By Hon. Oliver Fisk of Worcester. Horticulture, the best substitute 

 to our progenitors for their loss of Paradise, and the best solace to 

 their posterity for the miseries they entailed. 



By George Kent, Esq. of JV*. H. The fruits and flowers this day 

 exhibited. A splendid exemplification of the industry and enterprise 

 of the intelligent founders of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 

 "If such things are done in the green tree, what will be done in the 



dry" 



By a Guest. Horticulture The first occupation instituted for man : 

 to him was given " every herb, and every tree upon the face of the 

 earth." 



By John Prince, Esq. of Salem. The wedding we this day celebrate, 

 the union of heart y culture and horticulture. May the pair be ever held 

 as choice as the apple of our eye. 



By the Editor of the Boston Courier. Hon. DANIEL WEBSTER 

 Men are the growth our frozen realms supply, 

 And souls are ripened in our northern sky. 



By D. L. Child, Esq. Editor of the Massachusetts Journal. The 

 Ladies They are like " the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither 

 spin ; and yet Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these." 

 No wonder then, that we have such a profuse display of coxcombs and 

 marigolds. 



