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The Bussey Institution and Arnold 

 Arboretum, the Boston Metropolitan 

 System of Parks in New England, as also 

 the Central Park of New York and the 

 Chicago Exhibition have proved great 

 object lessons, and have thus appealed 

 to the nobler faculties of the public 

 generally. At the same time, these 

 happy effects have more or less direct 

 connection with the influences diffused 

 by horticultural societies, especially by 

 the Massachusetts Society. 



Window Gardening, an art of great 

 antiquity, may here be appropriately 

 mentioned as one of the advantages 

 derived from the Massachusetts Society. 

 By teaching children and even adults 

 the proper mode of raising flowering and 

 other plants in pots, by encouraging the 

 gathering of wild flowers preceded by 

 instruction as to the seasons and locali- 

 ties when and where they were to be 

 found, the observing faculties have been 

 educated and refining tastes have been 

 diffused. The love for natural beauty 

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