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purposes of the Society, and had therefore engaged the 

 former room till the end of the lease. The room, after 

 being repaired, was accordingly again occupied for the 

 quarterly meeting on the 4th of June, the public being 

 invited by an advertisement in the newspapers to visit 

 the exhibition. 



While the Society was occupying these rooms, Llew- 

 ellyn D. Jones, gardener to James Arnold of New Bed- 

 ford, presented a rustic chair of his own manufacture, 

 for which the thanks of the Society were voted on the 

 27th of September, 1834. It was ordered to be placed 

 in the hall, for the use of the presiding officer, and will 

 be remembered as having been so used for many years. 

 On the 18th of June, 1836, a letter was read from John 

 J. Low, announcing the donation of a painting of fruits, 

 in an elegant frame, for the decoration of the hall. 

 This painting, after following the migrations of the 

 Society, is suspended in the present Library Room. The 

 lease of this hall had not expired when it was vacated 

 by the Society, and it was underlet by them for the 

 remainder of the term. 



We find no further movement towards changing the 

 quarters of the Society until the 2d of September, 1837, 

 when the Executive Committee presented a report in 

 relation to providing rooms better suited to the purposes 

 of the Society. In accordance with their report, the 

 committee was authorized to obtain the rooms at No. 23 

 Tremont Row (now No. 25 Tremont Street) ; the room 

 last occupied not being sufficiently large to enable the 

 great number of persons who wished to visit the shows 

 to enter, or to allow of a fair display of the many 

 flowers sent for exhibition. The new room was in the 

 second story of the building, lighted from both front 



