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the next year, offered a premium of $10 for the most 

 successful method of destroying the rose slug. To this 

 John P. Gushing afterwards added $50 on the same 

 condition as Mr. Lee's gift, making a total premium of 

 $120. 



The next gift was from the Hon. Samuel Appleton, 

 who, in a letter to Marshall P. Wilder, president of the 

 Society, September 15, 1845, said, " With the view of 

 giving further aid to the Society in their very laudable 

 exertions, I send you enclosed $1,000, to be invested as 

 a permanent fund, the interest accruing therefrom to 

 be appropriated annually in premiums for improvements 

 in the arts to which the Society is devoted, in such 

 manner as it shall direct, for producing trees good for 

 food, and flowers pleasant to the sight." 



At the Third Triennial Festival of the Society, on the 

 22d of September, 1848, a letter was read from Mr. 

 Appleton, in which, with his regrets that indisposition 

 prevented him from attending the festival, and his 

 wishes for the continued success of the Society, he 

 sent $200, " fifty dollars of this sum, more or less, to 

 be invested in a Bible, elegantly bound in one, two, or 

 three volumes, the remainder to be laid out in books 

 of a religious, moral, scientific, or horticultural char- 

 acter, as the Committee on the Library should think 

 most beneficial to the Society ; the Bible, the best of 

 all books, giving a graphic history of the first garden, 

 of its fruits and flowers, its location, number of inhab- 

 itants, their character, and expulsion from Eden for 

 disobeying the command given for their observance." 



The year 1846 brought to the treasury of the Society 

 three liberal donations. On the 7th of February, the 

 president stated that an eminent individual, who wished 



