478 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



By Mr. E. M. Richards, Vice President : — ' 



The next President of the Massachusells Horticultiiial Society : May he ever aim to equal his 

 predecessors in promoting the prosperity of this Association. 



By Hon. J. S. Cabot, Vice President : — 



The Treasurer of the Mnssachusetis liorticultinal Society : He will never give " leg bail,^' thouglj 

 a good WaUicr — A modest man, though liis own Tulips (two-lips) praise him. 



By Samuel Walker, Treasurer of the Society : — 



The President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society: The Wilder man the better Presi- 

 dent. He has Marshalled the Society steadily forward in the path of improvement. 



By J. E. Teschemacher, Corresponding Secretary : — 



Success to the soil, and to him who wisely cultivates it. 



By Joseph Breck, Chairman of Committee of Arrangements. . 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Society: A living picture of the beneficial effects of Industry, 

 Cultivation, and fine taste, an emblem of" Paradise Regained." 



By Otis Johnson : — 



The City of Boston : The garden in which was first planted the saphng of our liberty, and in 

 whose luxuriant soil it has flourished and become a mighty Tree. 



By Josiah Lovett : — 



Joseph Breck, the Chairman of the Committee on Flowers : Like his namesake of old, wearing 

 well his floral coat of many colors, and generously yielding flower gifts to his brethren, even as 

 Joseph filled the sacks of the children of Jacob. 



By A. D. Williams :— 



The Indefatigable President of our Society: Like the sun glass, constantly imparting, with aug- 

 mented force, the rays of knowledge he concentrates. 



By Eben Wight :— 



The Golden Age: This fiction of the poets, in regard to the past, i."! prophecy in refcyence to 

 the future ; when every man shall sit under his own vine, and eat the f;-uit of his own garden. 



By Henry W. Button : — 



Our Amateur Horticulturists : Though they deal largely in stocks, Wi&j contrive to get hold 

 of those only which are continually going up. 



By Wm. B. Richards:— 



The Adornments of our Capital : Without the Acanthus what should we know of Corinthian 

 grace — like intellectual beauty it sits enthroned — a common object of admiration. 



By W. A. Kingsbury : — 



The valuable property of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society: One new-Hall for show in 

 Boston, and another Newhall for service in Dorchester. 



By R. M. Copeland, Librarian of the Society : — 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Society : JAke a, far spreading vine, may its growth increase 

 till its branches extend over the Union, and its fruits are gathered from every State of our Great 

 Confederacy. So rejoicing in this additional bond of brotherhood, shall posterity rise up and 

 call the founders of this Institution blessed. 



By J. L. L. F. Warren:— 



This " Luscious Fruit " — these " beauteous flowers," 

 Now sent to bless our joyous hours 



■\Vere reared by sturdy yeomen ; 

 But what the worth of" Luscious Fruit," 

 Or sweetest floivers most earnest suit, 



Without the " smile of woman. " 



This Fruit, these Flowers— thy sweat and toil 



Are drawn from 'neath the sod, 

 But Woman comes from belter soil, 



The brightest " gift of God .' » 



