LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE. 151 



[On the Obverse.] 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



INCORPORATED THE 12TH DAT OF JUNE, A.D. 1829. 



PRESENT NUMBER OP MEMBERS, FOUR HUNDRED AND TWENTY. 



With a list of the Officers and Standing Committees of 

 the Society. 



[On the Reverse.] 

 THIS EDIFICE IS ERECTED BY 



THE 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



TOR THE PURPOSE OP ENCOURAGING AND IMPROVING THE 



SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF HORTICULTURE. 



THIS CORNER STONE LAID ON THE 

 UTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, 1844. 



BUILDING COMMITTEE: 



MARSHALL P. WILDER, SAMUEL WALKER, J. E. TESCHEMACHER, JOSIAH 



STICKNET, JOHN J. Low, BENJ. V. FRENCH, E. M. RICHARDS, 



SAM'L R. JOHNSON, C. M. HOVEY, CHEEVER NEWHALL, 



JOSEPH BRECK, H. W. DUTTON, FRED. W. MACONDRY. 



ARCHITECT, RICHARD BOND. 



BUILDERS: 



GARDNER GREENLEAF, NATH'L ADAMS, O. W. 

 WILLARD SEARS, AND JONAS FITCH. 



TO THIS SOCIETY THE COMMUNITY ABB 

 INDEBTED FOR THE FOUNDATION AND CONSECBATION OF 



MOUNT AUBURN CEMETERY. 



Impressions of both these inscriptions were printed, 

 one copy being placed in the archives of the Society, 

 another presented to the Massachusetts Historical Soci- 

 ety, and a third to the American Antiquarian Society. 



