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visited, as was estimated, by 40,000 persons, of whom 

 25,666 paid an admission fee. By Mr. Hunnewell's 

 desire many of the pupils in the public schools and of 

 the inmates of charitable institutions received free tick- 

 ets of admission. The total receipts were $7,310, and 

 the expenses $5,744.72, leaving a profit of $1,565.28, 

 which, agreeably to Mr. Hunnewell's suggestion, was 

 set apart from the funds of the Society, the income to 

 be devoted to the encouragement of the cultivation of 

 rhododendrons and hardy azaleas. The thanks of the 

 Society were voted to Mr. Hunnewell for his noble and 

 generous efforts in the cause of horticulture, and for the 

 deep interest manifested by him in the welfare of the 

 Society, and more especially with regard to this grand 

 exhibition. 



The fourteenth session of the American Pomological 

 Society, being its quarter centennial, was held in Bos- 

 ton on the 10th, llth, and 12th of September, 1873, by 

 invitation of the Horticultural Society, and brought to- 

 gether a larger assembly of distinguished pomologists, 

 and a greater display of fruit, than had ever before 

 been gathered on this continent. Both of the Society's 

 halls were filled with the fruit contributed. The upper 

 hall was arranged with a very long and wide table in 

 the centre, on which the fruit from Nebraska and Can- 

 ada was placed, entirely filling it. Two tables on each 

 side of this, and tables on the stage, the latter appropri- 

 ated to the many seedling fruits presented, completed 

 the arrangement. That of the lower hall was similar. 

 Among the most important contributions presented was 

 that from the Nebraska Horticultural Society, consisting 

 of two hundred and ninety-seven varieties, and that of 

 the Kansas State Horticultural Society, consisting of one 



