THE MAGAZINE 



OF 



HORTICULTUR 



JULY, 1849. 



ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS. 



Art. I. Some Plants of Danvers and Wenham, Essex 

 County^ Massachusetts. By John Lev/is Russell, Profes- 

 sor of Botany, &c., to Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Mr, Editor, — As your magazine purports to treat of bot- 

 any as well as of horticulture, an account of the results of 

 a pleasant day's excursion in our woods, has been deemed, 

 by those who imdertook it, a proper offering to its pages. 

 Should you concur in these views, an insertion of this article 

 would oblige and gratify several amateurs of floral pursuits. 



The Essex Institute was organized in Salem, Massachu- 

 setts, about a year since, by the union of the Essex Horti- 

 cultural Society with the Essex County Natural History 

 Society. This latter society had, for several years past, 

 offered public exhibitions of fruits and flowers, and many 

 of its members were favorably known, both abroad and 

 through the pages of this magazine, as being successful in 

 this branch of horticultural skill. In arranging the business 

 of the year at the annual meeting, the Essex Institute, on 

 the same liberal plan of fostering a taste for the beautiful 

 and useful, appoints committees, who shall particularly at- 

 tend to those departments of research assigned to them. Of 

 these, is the horticultural committee, under whose auspices 

 the arrangement of flower and fruit shows will be continued. 

 Another committee may be mentioned, as pertaining more 

 specially to subjects of natural history, under whose inspec- 

 tion and research the botany of the county falls. The chair- 

 man of this committee, with a party of about a dozen 



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