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Society, have brought them to a more intimate acquaintance with the condition and state 

 of horticultural science among us, and enabled them to form a more correct opinion of the 

 value of the many fruits, flowers, plants and vegetables under cultivation, which must lead 

 to improved modes of cultivation. Your Committee see no material alteration to make 

 from the conditions of last year in relation to the Premiums for Gardens, and they would 

 recommend, with the President, " this interesting branch of our labors to the fostering care 

 of the Society." 



Upon the subject of Landscape Gardening, your Committee would refer to the Report of 

 last year, as containing their views in regard to this department of horticultural labor. 



In regard to an Experimental Garden, to which a passing allusion has been made by the 

 President, your Committee have now but little to say. If at any future time the Society 

 should seriously contemplate any such important work, then will be the opportunity to 

 discuss it. Your Committee now would merely state that, in their opinion, it is much better 

 to encourage individual effort, and incite individual exertion, than for the Society to enter 

 into the accomplishment of what can be as well, or better done, in that way. 



The holding of the Annual Exhibitions of the Society under tents receives a notice, and 

 as your Committee deem this a subject of some importance to the interest and pecuniary 

 condition of the Society, they trust it will have due attention from the Committee of 

 Arrangements for the intended Annual Exhibition in September next. 



The erection of a new Hall, or Temple, is mentioned with more than ordinary interest. 

 Your Committee are well aware that the Annual Exhibitions of the Society, provided they 

 are to be held in the Hall, cannot be accommodated in its present building ; and with the 

 increasing interest manifested in the culture of flowers and fruits, and the immense number 

 of the new varieties of both, as well as new vegetables, it is doubtful whether any ordinary 

 hall would be suitable for the accommodation of the Society at its Annual Exhibition. For 

 all the ordinary purposes of the Society, however, its present Hall is ample. Still, your 

 Committee would propose that the funds, after a liberal annual appropriation, should be 

 carefully husbanded, that, at a future day, should it be deemed expedient, a large, more 

 commodious, and elegant building, in every way suited for horticulture, may be erected ; 

 " where," in the language of the President, " it may be fitted up with reference to its soul- 

 stirring kindred spirit, Music, where the warbling voice and the ' Bird Song,' might be 

 wafted like the gentle zephyr among the trees, the buds, the blossoms and the flowers;" 

 a building, indeed, every way w-orthy of the standing of the Society, and of being denom- 

 inated a Temple of Flora and Pomona. 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



C. M. HOVEY, Chairman. 



The Report was accepted, and ordered to be printed with the President's Address. 



A package of Seeds was received from Mr. T. Ewbank, the Commissioner of Patents, 

 and placed in the hands of the Flower Committee for distribution. The thanks of the 

 Society were voted to Mr. Ewbank, for the same. 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, April 5, 1851. 



President, Samuel Walker, in the Chair. 



The Report of the Committee, made at a former meeting, awarding the Society's Medal 

 to the Hon. B. V. French, was taken up and accepted, 



Messrs. J. S. Cabot, Josiah Lovett, and W. R. Austin, were appointed a Committee to 

 carry the above into effect. 



