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By the same. The farmers of Massachusetts ; success to their efforts 

 to extirpate the worst enemy of their mowing lands, the Can-a-day 

 thistle. 



By J. Thornton Mams, Esq. Editor of the Centind. Agriculture 

 and Horticulture. Fields of action and ambition as extensive as the 

 soil of our country. 



By Nathan Hale, Esq. Editor of the Boston Daily Advertiser. Hor- 

 ticulture the Art by which nature is taught to improve her own 

 production. 



By Mr Wihon of the Neiv York Horticultural Society. The State of 

 Massachusetts the love of liberty is an indigenous production of her 

 soil. Her sons led the van in cleaning it from the deleterious brush 

 of tyrannical oppression. May equal success attend their labors in the 

 more pleasant and delightful departments of a milder species of 

 Horticulture. 



By T. Brewer, Esq. of Roxbury. Hon. JOHN LOWELL The Ma- 

 csenas of New England Horticulture. Himself a Patron, and his 

 premises a Pattern of correct and scientific cultivation. 



By Benj. F. French, Esq. of the Committee of Arrangements. The 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society, promising in its infancy, may 

 its fruits, like those of olden time, require two to carry a bunch of 

 grapes upon a staff. 



After the President had retired, ZEBEDEE COOK, Jr. Esq. 1st Vice 

 President, gave 



H. A. S. DEARBORN, President of the Society Under his auspices 

 it is more honorable to gather garlands in the garden of the cultivator, 

 than to win laurels in the field of the conqueror. 



By Santuel Doioner, Esq. of Dorchester. Our native fruits may 

 they continue to advance, developing their excellent qualities, until, 

 like their native soil, they become the admiration of other climes and 

 the pride of our own. 



By a Guest. The Queen of flowers, the LILT which (as is had on 

 the best authority) eclipsed the glory of Solomon in his imperial pur- 

 ple " for he was not arrayed like one of these." 



By a Guest. Horticulture the science which teaches man to 

 increase by diminishing ; a profitable barter of quantity for quality. 



By Mr J. B. Russell, Publisher of the Neic England Farmer. The 

 Long Island PRINCE of Horticulture Entitled by his science, zeal and 

 activity to the coronet of Flora, a badge of distinction more honorable 

 than the crown of the conqueror: in him we are favored with an 

 excellent exception to the ancient adage, " Put no trust in Princes" 



Sent by Mr Grant Thorburn ofNeio York. The city of Boston its 

 splendid churches, its public spirited citizens, and its magnificent villas. 



By Mr E. W. Metcalf. The cultivation of the earth, and the "Art of 

 Printing ; the sources of animal life, and of mental improvement. 



By Mr Jeremiah Fitch. Our country's independence : the best fruit 

 its soil ever produced. 



By Mr Rebello, Charge d 1 Jlffairs from Brazil. Mutual transplanta- 

 tions between North and South America the happiness of mankind is 



based on the liberal exchange of respective natural products. 



By Dr Thacher, of Plymouth. American Farmers who increase 

 the capabilities of the soil, gather the honey, and shear ihejlcece, and 

 reap the harvest for themselves and not for another. 



