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Baskets and Boquets were shown by Mark Hill, gardener to M. W. Bald- 

 win ; J. J. Habermehl, gardener to John Lambert ; Jerome Graff, gardener 

 to Caleb Cope ; C. O'Brien, gardener to D. R. King, and James Kent, gard- 

 ener to J. F. Knorr — the latter not in competition. 



Jonathan Baldwin, of Chester county, brought specimens of the Indian 

 and Cart-house apples. 



Mark Hill, gardener to M. W. Baldwin, exhibited Cauliflowers, Lettuce, 

 &c. ; Mr. Thompson, gardener to Mr. Tucker, Cucumbers, and John 

 M'Laughlin, Rhubarb. 



Mr. R. Buist introduced the following resolutions which were unanimous- 

 ly adopted : — 



Resolved, That this Society has learned with the deepest sorrow, the 

 death of Thomas Hancock, who departed this life (from an attack of pneu- 

 monia) at his residence, near Burlington, New Jersey, on the 21st ult., in the 

 54th year of his age. 



Resolved, That in acknowledging the sudden bereavement with which this 

 Society has been visited, it also expresses its keen appreciation of the severe 

 loss the various institutions with which the deceased was connected in his 

 native State and elsewhere ; and to the promotion of whose aims, he ever 

 brought a rare practical intelligence, an ardent zeal and sound judgment. 



Resolved, That whilst the life of so useful a citizen might be fittingly 

 presented as an example worthy of imitation on the part of a large body of 

 surviving friends, the void which his death has occasioned cannot be more 

 intensely experienced than by the members of this Society, with whom he 

 co-operated for so long a period in the discharge of official duties, (being at 

 the time of his death a member of no less than four of its most important 

 Committees.) 



Resolved, That although this Society is far from sanctioning the publica- 

 tion of fulsome memorials of living men, yet it deems a sketch of the life, 

 character and labors of its departed member, a proper subject for the pages 

 of those journals, to the interest of which he had so often contributed ; and 

 trust that the principal one in our land will favor its readers with such other 

 notice of this distinguished horticulturist as may be due to his memory. 



Resolved, That this Society especially condoles with the immediate fam- 

 ily of Mr. Hancock, in the sad dispensation which now afflicts them, but 

 hopes, nevertheless, that in reviewing the blameless career of their honored 

 head, they will find much to comfort and solace them in their distress. 



Resolved, That copies of these resolutions, signed by the President and 

 Secretary, be transmitted to Mrs. Hancock, and to the publishers of such 

 of the horticultural journals of the country as are received at the rooms of 

 the Society. 



Five gentlemen were duly elected members of the Society. 



BROOKLYN HORTICULTURAL. 



This flourishing society has made choice of the following officers for the 

 ensuing year : — 



President — John W. Degrauw. 



