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premiums ; and are confident that the only way to raise this department to 

 its proper elevation, is, to give it its just proportion of the aggregate sum 

 granted by the Society for premiums. 



For the Committee, 



JOHN A. KENRICK, Chairma),. 



Approved by the Executive Committee, February 10, 1845. 



Meeting of the Society, April 5, 1845. 



The following letter from John J. Low, Esq., Boston, was read : — 

 To Col. M. P. Wilder, President of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society : 



Dear Sir, — Feeling an interest in our excellent Institution, " The Massa- 

 chusetts Horticultural Society," and also a desire to add to the appearance 

 of our beautiful Hall, I have caused to be placed there a clock, which will 

 not only be in a degree ornamental, but also serve to prompt us all to make 

 the best use of the moments as they so rapidlj'' pass away. 



Will you ask the Society's acceptance of the same, together with my 

 best wishes for its prosperity. 



Very respectfully yours, 



JOHN J. LOW. 

 Boston, April 5, 1845. 



The thanks of the Society were presented to John J. Low, Esq., for his 

 beautiful and valuable donation of a clock. 



DEDICATION OF THE NEW HALL OF THE MASSACHUSETTS 

 HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



This ceremony took place on Thursday Evening, May 15, 1845. The 

 services were not only of an appropriate, religious character; but, in their 

 very nature, refined and elevating. The Hall itself, in its finish and 

 order, is chaste and beautiful, whilst the floral decorations of the festal oc- 

 casion, arranged with admirable taste by Messrs. Haggerston, Quant, and 

 McLellan, made it glow like a garden, and took captive both the sense of 

 sight and smell. 



The pot plants used for the decorations were superb specimen plants. 

 The Acacias and Fuchsias, from M. P. Wilder, Esq's conservatory; the 

 splendid Pelargoniums, from Mr. Quant, gardener to T. H. Perkins, Esq., 

 and Mr. Haggerston, from the conservatory of J. P. Cushing, Esq. ; the 



