136 MASSACHUSETTS HOUTICULTLHAL SOCIETY. 



Iowa State Horticultural Society, while we mourn our loss, will 

 strive to emulate the example he has set us, practice the virtues 

 that ennobled his character, and cherish his memory as one of the 

 most useful and venerable of those engaged in our noble calling. 



Resolved, That to him more than to anj- other is due the credit 

 of placing the art and science of Pomology and Horticulture 

 abreast of the other sciences of our country. 



Resolved, That the Secretary be requested to furnish a cop}" of 

 these resolutions to the American 1 omological Society, the Mas- 

 sachusetts Horticultural Society, and the family of the deceased. 



G. B. Brackett, 



H. W. Lathrop, \- Committee. 



J. L. BUDD, 



Adjourned to Saturday, February 26. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 

 Our Native Plants. 



By W. A. Manda, Gardener at the Botanic Garden of Harvard University, 



Cambridge. 



If we consider the large extent of this country, reaching from 

 arctic Alaska to semi-tropical Florida ; the high snow-clad moun- 

 tains, the sloping hills and fertile valleys, the sunn}' plains and 

 arid deserts, the rich bogs and still or running waters, with all 

 the range and combination of the different climates included with- 

 in its limits, we must necessarily expect to find a great variety of 

 plants growing in those different natural stations and those vari- 

 ous climates. And surely we are not disappointed in this expec- 

 tation, for within the borders of the United States we find a very 

 great number of species and varieties of plants, and these pre- 

 senting such diversities of form, stature, and structure that they 

 can be used for almost any ornamental purpose ; while many of 

 them are of great economical value. 



With them we can plant our avenues, [)arks, and shrubberies, as 

 well as borders, rockworks, and flower beds ; with them we can make 

 our gardens gay, and keep a succession of bloom from the time 

 when the snow leaves the ground until it comes again in the late 

 autumn ; and if you have a greenhouse you can stock it either with 

 foliage plants or flowering ones that will blossom the whole win- 



