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has crowned your efforts thus far. Let this excite and encourage 

 you to attain to a still greater degree of excellence, and let us rejoice 

 that we are here assembled under such happy and auspicious circum- 

 stances, to ])romote a cause which conduces so much, not only to our 

 own, hut to the comfort and happiness of mankind. 



"Ladies and eentlemen, allow lue to propose for your considera- 

 tion, the following sentiment: — 



Horticultural Anniversaries. — Nature's grand Festivals — at Avhich she opens 

 her storehouse of plenty, and crowns with rich profusion the labors of her 

 sons. 



The President then proposed the following sentiments: — 



Our Country. — A favored spot of earth, where Liberty has taken root, and 



Its fruits surpass in value the "Golden Apples" of antiquity. 



The Orator of the Bay. — wliether in the Field — in the Labaratory— among 



the flowers of the Garden, or in the Academic grove, — he is equally at home. 



Mr. Teschemacher g-ave in reply — 



The liberal cultivation of reciprocal esteem and friendship among nations — it is 

 sure to produce the blessed fruits of peace. 



The President remarked that the next sentiment had been prepar- 

 ed in honor of a distinguished individual, a member of the Society, 

 who feels a deep interest in agricultural and horticultural pursuits, 

 but who, from the inclement state of the weather, was prevented 

 from being present. 



Daniel Webster. — His Laurels are not tinged with blood, the Vine en- 

 twines the pillar of his fame, the Myrtle springs up in the track of his foot- 

 steps, and his country delights to repose under the shade of the Olive he has 

 planted. 



Long and loud applause succeeded this sentiment: — 



The Mayor of Boston— woxXhy to represent a city renowned for public 

 spirit, intelligence and patriotism. 



To this sentiment the Mayor replied in a neat and beautiful speech, 

 touching the appearance of ladies at public festivals. He concluded 

 with the following: — 



The modern Garden of Eden — where woman shall still be a match for a 

 man, and more than a match for any serpent. 



The President then gave — 



Harvard University. — A fountain opened by the Pilgrims. Many have 

 drawn of its waters, and thousands are now dispensing them for the refresh- 

 ment of the souls that thirst after knowledge. 



President Quincy replied in an interesting speech, and after allud- 

 ing to the scene and the ceminiscences it awakened of times gone by, 

 when improvements in flowers and fruits were unknown, and, to the 

 degree before him, unanticipated, continued — 



"It was in the year 1792 that the first attem[)t was made in this 

 city and vicinity, to aid and encourage the cultivation of the soil, 

 through the agency of an incorporated Society. At that tinie some 

 of the greatest men of their age formed and obtained an incorpora- 

 tion of the Massachusetts Agricultural Society, the precursor and the 

 parent of that most successful Society, whose anniversary we now 



