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known to horticulturists, the number -of contributors 

 to the shows was so large, that the selection of even a 

 small proportion of fruits or flowers or vegetables from 

 the garden of each afforded, with those of greenhouse 

 growth, which are not injured even by the most unfav- 

 orable seasons, an exhibition interesting and instructive 

 to visitors, as well as creditable to the Society. And if 

 cold or drought caused the appearance of retrogression 

 in any year, such an effect was but temporary ; and it 

 was found, on the return of a more genial season, that 

 all that was lost had been regained, and still more added 

 to it. 



