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zealously continued services they, have rendered, in every form which might 

 best promote its interests, and render it the most extensively useful to the 

 country, that was practicable; but with those who have been named, the 

 following are entitled to such high consideration, that it would be inexcu- 

 sable to omit an acknowledgment of the obligations of gratitude, they have 

 imposed upon us and posterity; J. E. Teschemacher, Samuel Downer, 

 Enoch Bartlett, Cheever Newhall, WilHam Oliver, E. M. Richards, I. P. 

 Davis, Jonathan French, Thomas H. Perkins, R. L. Emmons, George R. 

 Russell, John P. Gushing, Frederick Tudor, Benjamin Guild, Gorham 

 Parsons, Thomas Lee, A. Aspinwall, Eben. Wight, Josiah Stickney, J. S. 

 Cabot, Robt. T. Paine, L. P. Grosvenor, Otis Johnson, David Haggerston, 

 J. C. Howard, Josiah Lovett, F. W. Macondry, William Worlhington, 

 Aaron D. Williams, John Lemist, Aaron D. Weld, S. Downer, Jr., W. R. 

 Austin, John C. Gray, Joseph Balch, H. W. Dutton, J. F. Allen, A. 

 Bowditch, W. B. Kingsbury, P. Dodge, John S. Sleeper, John Prince, 

 Samuel Sweetser, S. A. Shurtletf, Samuel Pond, Edward A. Newton, 

 Daniel Chandler, S. R. Johnson, P. Barnes, R. M. Copeland, John Gor- 

 don, L. Davenport, and William E. Carter, the Superintendent of the 

 Botanic Garden in Cambridge. 



The aid which the first named gentleman has extended to the Society, as 

 an intelligent botanist, chemist and physiologist, a skillful and successful 

 cultivatoi*, and an able experimentalist on the elements of soils, the prepar- 

 ation and influence of fertilizing materials, and by numerous instructive 

 reports and addresses, upon those and other subjects, connected with the 

 theory and practical operations of gardening, have been so important, that 

 he will ever retain a distinguished position among the contemporaneous 

 pioneers of the age, in the science and art of Horticulture. 



It would have been in harmony with the high estimation in which all 

 those other gentlemen are held, to have done them more ample justice, 

 than merely to record their names ; for by the influence of their example, 

 as proprietors of well tilled grounds, — the collection and distribution of 

 the best kinds of fruits, vegetables and ornamental plants, — contributions 

 to the Exhibitions and active participants in the proceedings of the Society, 

 they have shown a devotion to the great objects, which it has been emulous 

 to accomplish, in a manner so conspicuous, that it can never be forgotten. 



The new kinds of fruits which have been introduced, within the last 

 twenty years, have been alluded to, but the additions to the ornamental 

 trees, shrubs and flowers, have been quite as remarkable, for their number 

 and beauty, while many useful esculent vegetables have been made known. 

 It is not possible, however, to state with precision the number of species in 

 each of those genera of plants ; still, from information Avhich may be relied 

 upon, it may be assumed, that nearly two thousand of the former and 

 between forty and fifty of the latter are cultivated in this State. 



