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down as on a chart. By that pattern he restored '* The Garden," 

 and when the flowers came up in their old places, the effect on him 

 was something like what the widow of Nain may have felt when 

 her dead son rose on his bier and smiled upon her. Nature 

 behaved admirably, and sent him back all the little tokens of her 

 affection she had kept so long. The same delegates from the 

 underground fauna ate his earl}' radishes ; he thought he should 

 have been disappointed if they had not. The aphis and the cater- 

 pillar and the squash-bug were cordial as ever, just as if nothing 

 had ever happened to produce a coolness or entire forgetfulness 

 between them and him. But the butterflies came back too, and 

 the bees and the birds. 



The Chairman of the Committee on Publication and Discussion 

 announced for the next Saturday, a paper on " ^Esthetics in 

 Agriculture," by George M. Whitaker, Editor of the " New Eng- 

 land Farmer." 



BUSINESS MEETING. 



Saturday, January 21, 1888. 



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

 the President, Henry P. Walcott, in the chair. 

 No business being brought before the meeting it 

 Adjourned to Saturday, January 28. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 

 -Esthetics in Agriculture. 



By Geokge M. Whitaker, A. M., Boston. 



A city is a necessary evil. In order to produce the world's 

 supply of clothing and shelter, and to distribute these and the 

 food supply, it is necessary that large numbers of people should 

 be massed at convenient localities near harbors, water-power, or 

 railroad centres. This aggregation gives those favored by nature, 

 b}' birth, by circumstances — or by a combination of these 



