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periodical journals, and is open at all hours of the day 

 for the use of members. At this room will be deposited 

 all seeds, scions of superior fruits, drawings of fruits, 

 new implements of use in horticulture, books for the 

 library of the Society, and all fruits, vegetables, or 

 ornamental flowers that may be offered for the pre- 

 miums of the Society." In the same number of the 

 Farmer, the recording secretary, Robert L. Emmons, 

 gave notice of a meeting of the Society on the next 

 Saturday at " Horticultural Hall," and thus the Society 

 was provided with a local habitation. 



We have mentioned in our introductory chapter the 

 agricultural warehouse of Joseph R. Newell, and the 

 office and seed store of John B. Russell, the publisher of 

 the Farmer, over it, as the general place of gathering 

 of the horticulturists and agriculturists in the vicinity of 

 Boston, and where the discussions which led to the 

 organization of the Horticultural Society took place. 

 In January, 1829, the office of the Farmer was removed 

 from the third to the second story, in the same room 

 with the agricultural warehouse ; and nothing could be 

 more natural than that the new society should occupy 

 the room thus vacated, which had been the familiar 

 haunt of so many of the members, with the agricultural 

 warehouse and Farmer office still in close proximity. 

 The room did not include the whole of the third floor 

 of the building, but only the front part, looking out 

 on Faneuil Hall and the then lately erected Quincy 

 Market, and through Merchants' Row to State Street. 

 It was very far from being what we should now call 

 " spacious ; " y^t it sufficed for all the ordinary purposes 

 of the Society, business meetings, exhibitions, library, 

 and a business and conversational exchange. Here we 



