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By Rev. F. W. P. Greemcood. The cultivation of the eartli, the mind 

 and tlie heart — May they advance among us rapidly and simultaneously, 

 till our whole country blooms like Eden. 



Bij John C. Gray, Esq. 2d Jlcc-Prcsldcnt. The art of Horticulture, 

 which furnishes us with delicious but wholesome luxuries, and with cheap 

 but splendid ornaments ; May it never want encouragement in a Repub- 

 lican and economical country. 



By Enoch Bartlett, Esq. 3d Vice-President. Agriculture, Horticulture, 

 and all other cultures which ameliorate the condition of man. 



By a generous Patron of the Society. The United States — May their por- 

 tion of the earth never be " subdued," but by the musket turned into the 

 ploughshare, and the sword into the pruning-hook. 



By H. J. Finn. The Heraldry of English Horticulture. Great-Britain 

 may be pi^ud of her privilege to confer titles of nobility, but Nature be- 

 stowed a higher honor on its peerage, when she created a Knight. 



By Thomas Green Fessendcn, Esq. Editor of the Xew-EngJand Farmer. 

 The greatest good of the greatest number. The whole world a garden, 

 hands enough to cultivate it, and mouths enough to consume its produc- 

 tions. 



By a Guest. The rising generation ; May these twigs be so trained as to 

 need but little trimming, become va\aable staridurds, produce fruits worthy 

 a premium, and receive prizes at the great final exMbition. 



By a Guest. Thomas A. Knight, Esq., President of the London Horti- 

 cultural Society ; the Genius and Philanthropist in the science of Horticul- 

 ture. 



By Hon. Oliver Fishe, of Worcester. Horticulture, the best substitute to 

 our progenitors for their loss of Paradise, and the best solace to their pos- 

 terity for the miseries they entailed. 



By George Kent, Esq. of JV. II. The fruits and flowers this day e.xhibit- 

 ed. A splendid exemplification of the industry and enterprise of the intel- 

 ligent founders of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. " If such 

 things are done in the green tree, what will be done in the dry?" 



By a Guest. Horticulture — The first occupation instituted for man : to 

 him was given " every herb, and every tree upon the face of the earth." 



By John Prince, Esq. of Salem. The wedding we this day celebrate, 

 the union of hearty culture and horticulture. May the pair be ever held at? 

 choice as the apple of our eye. 



By the Editor of the Boston Courier. Hon. Daniel Webster — 



Jleii are the growth our frozen realms supply, 

 And iojtZs are ripened in our northern sky. 



By D. L. Child, Esq. Editor of the Massachusetts Journal. The Ladies — 

 They are like " the lilies of the field, which toil not, neither spin ; and yet 

 Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these." No wonder 

 then, that we have such a profuse display of coxcombs and marigolds. 



By the same. The farmers of Massachusetts ; success to their efforts to 

 extirpate the worst enemy of their mowing lands, the Can-a-day thistle. 



By J. Thornton Mams, E.fq. Editor of the Ccntinel. Agriculture and 

 Horticulture. Fields of action and ambition as extensive as the soil of our 

 country. 



By Kathan Hale, Esq. Editor of the Boston Daily Mvertiscr. Horticul- 

 ture — the Art by which nature is taught to improve her own production. 



By Mr. Wilson, of the Kcio-York Horticultural Society. The State of Mas- 

 sachusetts — the love of liberty is an indigenous production of her soil. 



