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expectations of its warmest friends. In conclusion he 

 alluded to the act of the Society in the foundation and 

 consecration of Mount Auburn as a measure calculated 

 to reflect honor upon any institution, and quoted from 

 Judge Story's address the passage in which he spoke of 

 the connection of the Horticultural Society with the 

 cemetery. 1 



These services were attended, not only by the mem- 

 bers of the Society, but by many other citizens of Bos- 

 ton. 



The meeting of the Society on the 1st of March, 

 1845, was held, agreeably to the adjournment before 

 mentioned, at the committee room in the new building, 

 when the president addressed the members in a few 

 pertinent remarks, adverting to the condition of the 

 Society at that day in comparison with that at the time 

 of its organization in 1829 ; to its influence in dissem- 

 inating a taste for gardening, and to the usefulness 

 which it was designed to exert in the cause of horti- 

 cultural improvement. On the 22d of March it was 

 voted that the new hall belonging to the Society should 

 be called HORTICULTURAL HALL, and that the lower back 

 room should be known as the LIBRARY ROOM. Although 

 the term "Horticultural Hall" had been sometimes 

 applied to the rooms previously occupied by the Society, 

 it was but seldom used, they being generally known 

 as the " Horticultural Rooms." 



On the 19th of April the Building Committee reported 

 that the hall would be completed, and in readiness for 

 occupancy, on the loth of May ; and in the evening of 

 that day, eight months from the time when the corner 

 stone was laid, it was appropriately dedicated to the 



1 Ante, page 83. 



