30 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY, 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, December 18, 1875. 



An adjourned meeting of the Society was holden at 11 o'clock, 

 President Parkman in the chair. 



The President announced as additional members of the Com- 

 mittee on the Centennial, Edwin W. Buswell and Hervey Davis. 



Further time was granted to the Treasurer, the Finance Com- 

 mittee, the Committee on Publication and Discussion, and the 

 Editor, to prepare their several reports. 



Meeting dissolved. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



At this meeting the following Prize Essay was read by the 

 author : 



The Principles of Landscape Gardening, as Applied 

 TO Small Suburban Estates, 



BY DANIEL DENISON SLADE. 



No one in our country has done more to elevate the taste and 

 improve the judgment of the people in all matters relating to 

 rural embellishment than the late A. J. Downing, His writings 

 are marked by a degree of simplicity and truthfulness which ren- 

 ders them almost universally applicable, while at the same time, 

 they evince an ardent love of the subjects upon which he treats. 



The examples of his supervision and handiwork wherever they 

 exist, are also truthful expressions of the noble art in which he so 

 assiduously labored, and in which he may be said to have been the 

 pioneer. In thus recalling his name to memory and in giving his 

 own words upon Landscape Gardening, we would testifv our 

 admiration of the man and his works. 



Downing says,* " By Landscape Gardening we understand not 

 only an imitation in the grounds of a country residence, of the 

 agreeable forms of nature, but an expressive^ harmonious, and refined 



♦Treatise on Landscape Gardening. 



