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land. Of this there were thirty-four volumes issued. 

 Mr. C. M. Hovey published his Fruits of America 

 in two elegant volumes. At the same time came the 

 Horticultural Register, by Joseph Breck, and his popular 

 Book on Flowers, and Tilton's Journal of Horticulture, 

 Robert Manning, editor. To these may be added a 

 Treatise on the Culture of the Grape, by John Fisk 

 Allen ; the American Fruit Book, by Samuel W. Cole ; 

 the Culture of the Grape, by William C. Strong, and the 

 annual reports and publications of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society, with its extensive and magnifi- 

 cent library, which is acknowledged by all to be one 

 of the best horticultural libraries in the world. And 

 in this connection we should also record the fact 

 that Horticultural Hall has no equal in elegance and 

 convenience within our knowledge ; and to crown all, 

 we have the History of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society for its first half century, embodying 

 much of the history and progress to which we have 

 alluded. 



Nor can we close this chapter without recognizing 

 with gratitude the efforts of the men who laid the 

 foundations of the Massachusetts Society for Promot- 

 ing Agriculture, of the American Pomological Society, 

 and particularly of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, and especially the labors of John B. Russell, 

 the only survivor of those mentioned in the act of 

 incorporation, who also established the first general 

 seed store in Boston more than fifty years ago, and 

 has devoted a long life to the promotion of horticul- 

 tural science. 



Nor would we refrain from noticing the influence 

 w r hich was, primarily, here created by the efforts of 

 our first settlers in promoting the higher branches of 

 terraculture, and which has now been extended 



