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expedient to procure a suitable room in some central 

 and convenient situation for the use of the Society ; " 

 and B. V. French, Thomas Brewer, and Z. Cook, Jun., 

 were appointed a committee to ascertain where such a 

 room could be procured. In two weeks they reported 

 that they were unable to find a room possessing the 

 requisite conveniences, and were requested to make 

 further inquiries. May 8 they were instructed " to 

 petition the City Government for an apartment in the 

 Old State House, or any other city edifice, to be used 

 as the hall of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society." 

 On the 27th of November a meeting was held at the 

 Exchange Cofiee House, " for the purpose of consulting 

 upon and adopting measures in relation to the procur- 

 ing a suitable room for the future meetings of the 

 Society." At this meeting the committee to procure 

 a room was discharged, and a new one appointed, 

 with full powers to procure and furnish suitable rooms. 

 They were, however, unsuccessful in finding a satisfac- 

 tory place until the next spring; but on the 7th of 

 May, 1831, the meeting of the Society was held at the 

 rooms in Joy's Building, which, as appears from an 

 advertisement in the New England Farmer, were " Nos. 

 14 and 15 in the second gallery." These rooms were 

 much more commodious than the one previously occu- 

 pied; but at the first meeting held there the Society 

 voted " that the committee appointed to secure rooms 

 request the owner of the building to enlarge, at his 

 own expense, the passage way between the two rooms 

 by cutting out another door, for the better accom- 

 modation of the Society," and they were accordingly 

 so connected, that, when desired, they could easily be 

 converted into one large room. On the 3d of Sep- 



