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were also made, and all his cultivation was done in the most 

 thorough manner, a pond fortunately situated supplying facilities 

 for irrigation, the importance of which was not then as well un- 

 derstood as now.* 



Mr. Stickney was afterwards elected President of this Society, 

 and by establishing a fund for the increase of the library became 

 the means of its possessing the best horticultural library in this 

 country if not in the world. Standing in the midst of this in- 

 valuable collection of books, we might say of him in the often 

 quoted words inscribed on the monument of Sir Christopher Wren 

 in St. Paul's Cathedral — "If you seek for his monument, look 

 about 3'ou." 



The speaker added that frequentl}' as he looked on such exhibi- 

 tions of the Society as that which closed the previous evening, he 

 had wondered whether there miglit not be present some embryo 

 cultivator, imbibing such a love of horticulture as that which pro- 

 duced so admirable results in Mr. Stickney's case. And the lesson 

 he would draw from this reminiscence was that we should all 

 strive to make our exhibitions as good as we possibh' can, in order 

 to attract those who may be thereby led to become skilful culti- 

 vators and benefactors to the Society and the communit3\ 



President Walcott, alluding to the unsuccessful effort which had 

 been made to obtain a site on the Public Garden for a more com- 

 modious building for the use of the Society, added to the motive 

 mentioned by the preceding speaker for making our exhibitions as 

 good as possible, the desire to increase public interest in them, and 

 secure the favor of the community for whatever plan might be 

 adopted to provide more spacious halls for the exhibitions of the 

 Society. 



Mr. Manning thanked the President for supplementing his re- 

 marks, and desired to add still another reason why every one of 

 those present and every member of the Society should do all in 

 his power to procure enlarged rooms for the Society, viz. : that 

 the accommodations for the library for which we are so largely in- 

 debted to Mr. Stickuey's liberality are now so extremely inadequate, 

 and arc every day becoming more insufficient. 



Mr. Had wen, as Chairman of the Committee on Publication and 

 Discussion, announced that this would be the last of the series of 



•Hovey's Magazine of Horticulture, September, 1862, Vol. XVIII, p. 420. 



