SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Annual Exhibition of Fruits and Flowers, of the Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society, took place on Wednesday the 

 16th and Thursday the 17th September; and the place selected 

 Was the Odeon, situated in Federal-street, in Boston. The area 

 having on this occasion been cleared, formed by a slight but new 

 arrangement, a magnificent Hall, of lofty height, and spacious 

 dimensions, with a skylight in the centre. The gallery leading 

 from the vestibule, being closely studded on either side with 

 pines, formed like a forest, a dark but pleasing avenue of en- 

 trance. 



The fruits, which were on this occasion exhibited, were al- 

 together uncommonly fine, and of kinds and of qualities superior 

 to those of former years. And the display of the flowers and 

 the fruits, and the skillful arrangement of the whole, in all its 

 parts, produced an effect confessedly surpassing any thing of the 

 kind before witnessed. 



We remarked that the e.xliibition, and by far the most invalu- 

 able specimens and varieties of flowers, and more especially of 

 fruits, consisted of nnc kinds, in very great proportion ; — or, of 

 those kinds mostly which, ten or twelve years ago, were unknown 

 to our country, even in name. Thanks to those enlightened in- 

 dividuals, who with untiring zeal have ransacked earth, recalling 

 home to their country all that might serve to adorn, and all that 

 might be eminently useful, for trial in our climate, and on our 

 highly favored shores. 



The days of exhibition were unusually fine, and the concoinse 

 of visitors very numerous, both from the city, and from various 

 and remote parts of the country. 



On the second day, a discourse was delivered at the Odeon, 

 by Professor J. L. Russell of Salem. 



The following is the account of the exhibition of Fruits : — 



By E. Vose of Dorchester, President of the Society — Pears : 

 Rartlett, Passe Colmar, Tillington, Urbaniste, Wilkinson, Cush- 



