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and the aggregate sum produced, including premiums for a choice, was 

 twentythree thousand two hundred and fiftylive dollars. 



During the period which had elapsed, from the foundation of the Society, 

 the weekly exhibitions gradually became more interesting, and the Festivals 

 of each succeeding year presented conclusive testimonials of the great 

 benefits Avhich had been derived, and gave encouraging assurances of the 

 future prosperity and importance of the institution, from the continually 

 increasing varieties, perfection, beauty and number of the garden products, 

 which were offered for premium, or the embellishment of the halls and 

 other apartments of the Society. 



On each of those public celebrations, from 1829 to 1834, Addresses were 

 successively delivered by Z. Cook, Jr., Esq., Dr. Malthus A, Ward, Dr. 

 Thaddeus W. Harris, Hon. Alexander H. Everett, and John C. Gray, 

 Esq. 



As Mr. Dearborn, the President of the Society, contemplated removing 

 from the State, he resigned on the tenth of September, 1834, and Z. Cook, 

 Jr., Esq., was elected as his successor; but as that gentleman had been 

 invited to preside over an important commercial institution in New York, 

 he retired from the office, to which he had been deservedly elevated in the 

 Society, before the close of the year. 



Mr. Cook was among the earliest and most energetic projectors of the 

 Horticultural Society ; and from its organization to the period of his 

 resignation, he was zealous and unremitting in his efforts to promote its 

 prosperity and the expansion of its influence, not only by the intelligent 

 practical management of an extensive garden, but by numerous interesting 

 and instructive essays upon the various branches of tillage, which were 

 widely circulated through the medium of the New England Farmer, and 

 other periodical publications ; and to him is the Society greatly indebted 

 for the valuable services which he rendered in its establishment, and while 

 connected with it, by the faithful performance of the many duties which 

 were devolved upon him. 



In 1835, Elijah Vose, Esq., was chosen President. During that year 

 the Proprietors of lots in Mount Auburn, who were not previously mem- 

 bers of the Horticultural Society, expressed a desire that the land which 

 had been appropriated for the Experimental Garden should be included in 

 the Cemetery, and the management of the establishment confided to them ; 

 and as the members of the Society, generally, entertained an opinion that 

 it was probable many years might elapse before the income from the 

 Cemetery would be sufficient to defray the expense of cultivating it, in a 

 satisfactory manner, and that whenever ample means could be obtained 

 for such a purpose, it was possible a more eligible selection of a tract of 

 land for a Garden could be made, the Society relinquished all its control 

 over Mount Auburn, to the Proprietors of lots therein, upon condition that 



