60 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Andrews Breed and his brother Henry A. Breed came 

 from Lynn. To the best of the recollection of the last- 

 named gentleman the other five founders of the society 

 were William Kenrick, Jonathan Winship, Robert L. 

 Emmons, Benjamin V. French, and William H. Sum- 

 ner. Messrs. Russell and Ives, and the two Messrs. 

 Breed still survive. 



The number of the New England Farmer contain- 

 ing an official account of this meeting has also a com- 

 munication, over the signature " Dorchester," from which 

 we give the following extract : 



" We are pleased to learn that the meeting of the friends of hor- 

 ticulture in this city on Tuesday last was numerously attended, 1 

 and that the occasion afforded the most conclusive evidence that a 

 society for the improvement of this branch of our domestic indus- 

 try will be established under auspicious circumstances. 



" For ourselves we have long felt a strong interest in this mat- 

 ter. We have seen in other sections of our country the beneficial 

 influence of institutions devoted to the practice of horticultural 

 pursuits, and heard more of its ameliorating effects upon the varie- 

 ties of fruits heretofore cultivated with partial success. 



" The association of men of taste, of influence, and industry, has 

 effected, in some of our neighboring cities, a wonderful improve- 

 ment in the qualities of indigenous fruits, and a great increase of 

 the varieties of foreign, of every kind, susceptible of successful 

 culture in our climate. Here individual efforts have generously 

 and patriotically contributed to collect the finest varieties of fruits, 

 and not only to distribute gratuitously the plants or the scions, as 

 the case may be, for extended culture, but, what renders the favor 

 more valuable, to impart from their rich stores of practical knowl- 

 edge a portion for the benefit of the uninitiated." 



An adjourned meeting of the subscribers for a horti- 

 cultural society was held at the same place on Tuesday 

 the 17th of March, three weeks from the time of the 



1 Sixteen persons, considering the state of the roads, and other circum- 

 stances, might be termed by a warm friend of the meeting a numerous 

 attendance. 



