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condition to maintain the reputation which it so richly 

 deserves. 



The Bussey Institution 1 and the Arnold Arboretum 

 at Jamaica Plain, also departments of Harvard Uni- 

 versity, give promise of great usefulness, not only in 

 promoting Agriculture and Arboriculture, but will be 

 prominent agents in advancing the cause of Horticul- 

 ture, and a knowledge of the endless variety of trees 

 and plants, where, under the direction of Prof. Sargent, 

 curator, are now growing 2500 species of trees and 

 shrubs. The funds for the establishment of the Bussey 

 Institution were derived from the bequest of Benjamin 

 Bussey, and those for the Arboretum from James Ar- 

 nold, of New Bedford, who constituted the late Dr. Geo. 

 B. Emerson and others, trustees, with authority to appro- 

 priate the same for such a purpose. These institutions 

 are in a prosperous condition, each carrying out the ob- 

 jects for which they were designed. This place, now 

 called Woodland Hill, on which Thomas Motley, President 

 of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, 

 now resides, by virtue of Mr. Bussey's will in bequest to 

 Mrs. Motley, was purchased by Mr. Bussey in 1815, where 

 he afterwards had orchards of various fruits, pears, 

 plums and peaches, especially of the apple and cherries, 

 largely Mazzard, as Mr. Bussey used to say, for the 



1 The property of Woodland Hill was given to Harvard College, on the fol- 

 lowing conditions, viz. : " That they will establish there a course of instruction 

 in practical Agriculture, in useful and ornamental gardening, in botany, and 

 in such other branches of natural sciences as may tend to promote a knowledge 

 of practical agriculture, and the various arts subservient thereto and connected 

 therewith, and cause such course of lectures to be delivered there, at such 

 seasons of the year and under such regulations as they may think best adapted 

 to promote the ends designed ; and also to furnish gratuitous aid, if they shall 

 think it expedient, to such meritorious persons as may resort there for 

 instruction; the institution so established shall be called the " Bussey Institu- 

 tion." Thomas Motley's Letter. 



