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The Trustees met on the 27th February, 1850, and 



Voted: to "appoint Daniel AV. Lincohi, William M. Bick- 

 ford, and Stephen Salisbury, a Committee to take into con- 

 sideration the expediency of purchasing Real Estate, with the 

 whole, or a part, of the Society's funds." 



Subsequently, on the 18th iNIarch, of the same year, the 

 Trustees voted, unanimously, that 



" It is expedient that the Society authorize the Trustees to 

 invest the funds of the Association in Real Estate." 



April 3, 1850, the Committee appointed February 27th, 

 reported to a special meeting of the Society : and thereupon, 

 no one dissenting, it was Voted: that the Society should pur- 

 chase the Partridge Estate, and a part of the Wool-Store Estate 

 (so-called), on Front Street, as recommended by the Committee 

 of the Trustees. 



Again and tinally on the tirst day of tTanuary, A. D. 1851, 

 the Society, in Annual Meeting, unanimously Voted: that it is 

 expedient that the Society should erect a Hall upon their site, 

 on Front Street, in this City. 



" For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be 

 done in the dry?'" was the pregnant quer}', aforetime. What 

 position in the realm of Horticulture you have assumed, by 

 virtue of independent ownership ; what higher rank you might 

 attain as public benefactors were your conceded rank and abso- 

 lute resources put to their most effective use ; are problems 

 whereof the consideration is not presently imperative. Suffice 

 it here to say, that the Society entered into possession of its 

 own Hall, when completed ; and advanced in a work, lying 

 ready to its hand, of imparting instruction by that best and 

 simplest of all methods, so good that its very simplicity usually 

 prompts to its neglect ; teaching from example ! As the 

 woods, fields, and swamps were scoured, in the early century, 

 to supply subjects for analysis and tuition, in the old 

 Town Hall : so the time-honored gardens and established 

 orchards of the thriving town were induced to yield tribute, 



