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home and abroad. He was distinguished in military, political, 

 and masonic circles, and as a citizen was held in high esteem. 

 He was a man of fine personal presence and bearing, — honest, 

 true to his friends, — and a Christian gentleman. 



This Board shares with the Horticultural Society in a deep 

 sense of loss by his removal from earth, and will cherish his 

 memory with affectionate regard. 



He wooed Nature with a passionate love, ministered at her 

 altar, sought for her secrets with which to bless mankind. 



" For all his life was poor without! 



O, Nature ! make the last amends ; 

 Train all thy flowers his grave about 



And make thy singing birds his friends. 



" Revive again, thou summer rain, 



The broken turf upon his bed ! 

 Breathe, summer wind, thy tenderest strain 



Of low, sweet music overhead ! 



" With calm and beauty symbolize 



His peace, which follows long annoy ; 

 And lend our earth-bent, mourning eyes 



Some hint of iiis diviner joy. 



"For safe with right and truth he is,— 



As God lives he must live alway. 



There is no end for souls like his ; 



No night for children of the day." 



— Whittiek. 



REPORT FOR 1887. 



Bv HENRY H. GOODELL, 

 President of the State Aoricdltdral College, Amherst. 



In visiting the exhibitions of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, one feels inclined to apply the words found in the first 

 book of Moses, where, after seeing that the earth brought forth 

 grass and herbs, yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding 

 fruit, whose seed was in itself after his kind, the verdict was "that 

 it was good." Where so much is good, it becomes diflicult to know 

 just how to measure one's praise. 



A Society which, for fifty-nine years, has held its Annual Exhi- 



