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mainder I wish to have laid out in Books of a reHgious, moral, historical, scientific, or horticultu- 

 ral character, as the Committee on the Library think most beneficial to the Society. The Bible, 

 the best of all books, gives a graphic history of the first {garden, of its fruits and flowers, its loca- 

 tion, number of inhabitants, their character, and expulsion from Eden for disobeying the com- 

 mand given for their observance. 



I wish continued success to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, and health and happiness 

 to yourself. 



I have the honor to be. Dear Sir, with great respect, your most obedient, most humble servant, 



Sam'l Appleion. 

 The next toast in order was : — 



Our Benefactors : What heads to conceive, and yet more and better what hearts to execute mu- 

 nificent designs I 



The President announced as present, Dr. J. W. Thomson, a delegate 

 from the Delaware Horticultural Society, a gentleman among the most ex- 

 tensive in rearing fruits in the United States, and identified with the agri- 

 culture and horticultural improvements of his State, and Dr. Thomson briefly 

 replied, and gave : — 



The Fair of Massachusetts, and the Massachusetts Horticultural Fair : Plowers and fruits worthy 

 their Pilgrim parentage— ornaments in that wreath of commercial enterprise, manufactures, edu- 

 cation and the arts, with which the sons and daughters of the " Old Bay State " have encircled 

 her brow. 



The President then gave : — 



The Massachusetts Charitable Mechanic Association : Dispensing rewards to labor, and encour- 

 agement to genius — adding refinement to wealth, and happiness to competence — and sending re- 

 lief and comfort to the needy and aiilicted — May its means be always commensurate with the re- 

 quirements of its bounty ! 



Henry N. Hooper, Esq., President of the Society, responded in a few re- 

 marks, and proposed the following sentiment : — 



The Officers of the Massaahusetts Horticultural Society ; May they be supported by a generous 

 public, until all New England shall teem with such beautiful products as they have presented to 

 us on this occasion. 



The President read the following sentiment by Hon. B. V. French, Vice 

 President of the Society : — 



Ifort if i/?(Mra? HnZi,- Rightfully does it stand upon a spot long consecrated to education. Na- 

 ture and art still keep a, public school there, teaching not the dead language of departed nations) 

 but the living language of truth and beauty addressed to every heart. 



The President then called on J. L. Russell, Professor of Botany, &c., 

 to the Society, who made some interesting remarks, and paid a deserving 

 tribute to the scientific labors of Prof. Agassiz. He offered the follovv-ing 

 sentiment : — 



Horticulture the perfection of Agriculture : Which, vmileT the auspices of science, is capable of 

 rendering universally applicable " Liberty, Eciuahty, and Fraternity." 



The President gave : — 



Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture : One of the oldest Monthlies in the country, but still as 

 flourishing as the freshest evergreen in the editor's own crowded nursery. 



Mr. Hovey, who had been obliged to leave, left the following : — 



The Art of Cultivation : Only to be acquired by the application of mental and manual labor — 

 a vigorous mind and an industrious hand. 



The President alluded, in a feeling and appropriate manner, to the decease 

 of members, to the following purport : — 



So transitory are the things of this life, that we are called frequently to 



