118 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The portion of the history of the Horticultural So- 

 ciety thus reviewed is both interesting and important. 

 For several years, the history of Mount Auburn was 

 embraced in that of the Society, and, even though sepa- 

 rated, they can never be wholly divorced. The Society 

 must always be interested in the cemetery as a child of 

 its own, and one that has for years added to the pros- 

 perity of the parent. Mount Auburn, while it makes a 

 liberal return for the care bestowed upon it in its youth, 

 rejoices that a share of its annual income fosters one of 

 the noblest of arts and sciences, and that, while it " scat- 

 tereth, it yet increaseth." If the Society had done 

 nothing more than to establish the oldest and one of 

 the most important of the rural cemeteries of the United 

 States, it would have accomplished no mean work in its 

 existence of half a century. 



