26 HISTORY AND CULTURE OF THE PEAR. 



from whence were derived many of the best kinds of fruit which are 

 acclimated in this section of the Union. 



Mr. Lowell, who may Avith great propriety be called the Columella of 

 the Northern States, and Mr. S. G. Perkins, were not only distinguished 

 for the intelligent and successful manner in which their spacious gardens 

 were tilled, but by their numerous communications on the various branches 

 of Agriculture and Horticulture, which, for more than thirty years, formed 

 the most interesting and instructive portions of the Massachusetts Reposi- 

 tory, and the various periodical publications which were devoted to those 

 great departments of rural industry. May we ever be so fortunate as to 

 have like emulous competitors in that honorable career, in which they were 

 so distinguished, as to have merited and received the grateful acknowledg- 

 ments of their contemporary fellow-citizens, as they should, and will, of all 

 succeeding generations. 



Hawthorn Cottage, ) 



Roxbury, June 9th, 1847. ) 



