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gallery. At four o'clock about four hundred ladies and 

 gentlemen sat down to dinner. Speeches were made 

 by President Parkman, Governor Gaston, Rev. Mr. 

 Clarke, Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, Col. Theodore Ly- 

 man, Rev. Asa Bullard, and others. 



The Committee on Gardens reported visits to the 

 greenhouses of E. S. Rand, jun., where the orchids 

 were the principal attraction ; to the orchard house of 

 Mrs. C. H. Leonard at Rochester, where the peach, 

 plum, apricot, nectarine, and cherry trees were found in 

 the finest possible condition, and where the committee 

 had the opportunity of testing many fruits, among them 

 several of Rivers's newest seedling peaches and necta- 

 rines ; to E. W. Wood's grapery, which was filled with 

 a remarkable crop of grapes, and where every thing 

 was in perfect order ; to Woodlawn Cemetery, where 

 they noted as the principal features distinguishing this 

 from other cemeteries in the vicinity of Boston, the 

 lawn, near the entrance, of nearly twenty acres, bor- 

 dered with a fine growth of trees, and Woodside and 

 Netherwood Avenues, the former three-fourths, and 

 the latter half a mile in length, and particularly beauti- 

 ful from passing through a forest with an undergrowth 

 of kalmias and rhododendrons ; and to Newton Ceme- 

 tery, which they considered unrivalled for simplicity and 

 good taste, there being but little of the heavy granite 

 and iron work so conspicuous in some cemeteries, and 

 none in the new lots. Prizes or gratuities were award- 

 ed for all these places. 



Meetings for discussion were held during the months 

 of January, February, and March, and were resumed 

 in December by the reading and discussion of an essay, 

 by William H. White, on the Culture of the Cabbage 



