172 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



[On the Obverse.] 

 THIS EDIFICE IS ERECTED 



BY THE 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



FOB THE PURPOSE OP EXCOUBAGING AND IMPBOVING THE 



SCIENCE AND PRACTICE OF HORTICULTURE, 



AND THIS ObBNEB STONE LAID AUGUST 18, 1864, 

 BY THE PBESIDENT, 



CHARLES M. HOVEY. 



BUILDING COMMITTEE; 



O. M. HOVEY. WILLIAM R. AUSTIN. 



JOSIAH STICKNEY. H. H. HUNNEWELL. 



MARSHALL P. WILDER. JOSEPH S. CABOT. 



C. O. WHITMORE. JAMES F. C. HYDE. 



LEANDER WETHERELL. 



ARCHITECTS: 

 GRTDLEY J. F. BRYANT AND ARTHUR OILMAN. 



TO THIS SOCIETY THE COMMUNITY ABE INDEBTED FOB THE FOUNDATION 

 AND CONSECBATION OF MOUNT AUBURN CEMETEBY. 



[On the Reverse.] 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



INCOBPOBATED THB 12TH DAY OF JUNE, 1829. 



PRESENT NUMBER OF MEMBERS SIX HUNDRED AND EIGHTT. 

 PRESIDENT. 



CHARLES M. HOVEY. 



VICE-PRESIDENTS. 



J. F. 0. HYDE. 0. O. WHITMORE. 



H. HOLLIS HUNNEWELL. W. 0. STRONG. 



TREASURER. 

 WILLIAM R. AUSTIN. 



CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. RECORDING SECRETARY. 



EBEN WIGHT. F. LYMAN WTN8HIP. 



