HON. JOHN LOWELL, LL.D. 



PRESIDEjrr OF THE MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR TUB 

 PROMOTION OF AGRICULTURE, &c. &c, 



Sm, 



THE compiler of the NEW AMERICAN GARDENEH 

 is happy to inscribe it to a gentleman, whose enlight- 

 ened zeal, and disinterested efforts to promote the art 

 to which it is devoted, have rendered such dedication 

 so very appropriate. Please to accept of it, not only 

 as a grateful acknowledgment of favours received, but 

 a slight, though sincere, indication of the writer's high 

 opinion of the value of your indefatigable exertions to 

 encourage and enlighten the pursuits of the Husband- 

 man and the Horticulturist ; vocations, which, as they 

 are first in the order of civilization, should, in every 

 civilized country, be considered as of the first im- 

 portance to the best interests of its inhabitants. 



With the highest esteem, 



* your much obliged, 



and most obedient servant, 



THOMAS G. FESSENDEN. 



