REPORT 



OF THE 



TRANSACTIONS OF THE SOCIETY 



FOR 1839, 1840 AND 18 41. 



The last Report of the Proceedings of the Society was published at the 

 close of the year 1838, and included its transactions from the close of the 

 ninth anniversary in September, 1837, to December 31, 1838. That report 

 was prepared under the direction of Prof. Russell, and gave in detail the 

 several weekly exhibitions of the society which were held during the 

 period above named. Some interesting preliminary observations, upon the 

 state of Horticulture, were also added by Mr. Russell, which rendered the 

 report more acceptable to the members. 



From 1838 to 1842, the society have not published any of its transac- 

 tions, and they possess no record of its several interesting annual exhibi- 

 tions other than what are to be found in the volumes of the Magazine of 

 Horticulture and the New-England Farmer. The committee who have pre- 

 pared the following report, were authorized by the society to draw up only 

 an accotmt of its transactions for 1841. But upon mature consideration, 

 they have deemed it advisable that the society should itself possess some 

 better record than the detached reports above alluded to. A volume con- 

 taining the transactions of the society is valuable, not only as a book of 

 reference in relation to the exhibitions of flowers and fruits, but as serving 

 to show how rapidly it has progressed, and what good it has accomplished 

 in the important science which it was established to promote. The com- 

 mittee have therefore gone back two years, and commenced their report 

 where the last one was brought to a close, believmg that such a connected 

 account will be received by the society with more gratification than if tM-o 



