fn IRew England 



ing a general love of culture and in 

 increasing the extent of planting upon 

 our small homesteads. . . . Who can 

 estimate the elevating influence and the 

 stability which would be given to the 

 laboring classes, by thus beautifying their 

 homes, and strengthening their local 

 attachments ? " l 



Allusion has been made to the litera- 

 ture of horticulture in New England both 

 before and after the establishment of 

 the society. Almost entirely due to its 

 agency, in addition to the publication, 

 of its own Transactions, several journals 

 and periodicals were started. Among 

 these should be mentioned the Ameri- 

 can Farmer and the New England Far- 

 mer. Two works, The New American 

 Gardener, by T. G. Fessenden, and a 

 Treatise on the Cultivation of Flowers, 

 appeared early in Boston. Several horti- 

 cultural works published in Europe were 

 republished here. In later years, the 



1 Address of W. C. Strong, 1871, History of the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society , 1871. 



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