SIXTH ANNIVERSARY 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The sixth Anniversary of the Massachusetts Horticultural So- 

 ciety was celebrated on the ITth, 18th, and 19th September, by 

 a public exhibition of fruits and flowers, in Fanueil Hall. The 

 display surpassed the most sanguine anticipations of the friends 

 of the Society, and the Amateurs of that rural improvement, in 

 which nature and art combine to produce the fairest objects, 

 which can decorate the splendid abodes of affluence, or the hum- 

 ble retreats of rural felicity. It was a subject of delightful con- 

 templation to behold the "Cradle of Liberty" converted, as it 

 were, by enchantment, into the Temple of Flora and the Palace 

 of Pomona. The Champions of American Independence, whose 

 portraits adorn the walls of the venerated fabric, appeared to look 

 with complacence on the effbrts of the Society to decorate the 

 theatre of their exertions, which gave Independence and National 

 Liberty to our common country ; and splendid realities combined 

 with pleasing reminiscences to "lend enchantment to the scene." 



At 12 o'clock on the 17th, an Address was delivered by John 

 C. Gray, Esq. which was all the occasion demanded, or which 

 could be anticipated by the most ardent friends of Horticulture. 



The following are some of the donations of Fruits and Flow- 

 ers, which were contributed in aid of the exhibition : — 



From Col. T. H. Perkins, Brookline, (by William H. Cowing,) 

 Black Hamburg, White do. White Muscat of Alexandria, Saint 

 Peters, Black Prince, Muscat of Lunil, White Frontignac, Grisly 

 Frontignac, Flame colored Tokay, White Chasselas or Sweet 

 Water, White do. of Frontignac, Frontignac, Constantia of Byz- 

 ant, and Isabella Grapes. A large basket of superb Peaches and 

 Nectarines. 



Hon. John Lowell, Roxbury — White Pitmaston Cluster Grape, 

 a new seedling, very hardy and early, just imported, White Ham- 

 burg Grape, and a basket of ripe Figs. 



Hon. Richard Sullivan, Brookline — Bartlett Pears, Black Ham- 

 burg Grapes, and fine Nutmeg Melon. 



