THIRTEENTH ANNIVERSARY 



OF THE 



MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



" To study Nature was the task designed, 

 And learn from her th'enlargement of the mind. 



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 Learn from her works whatever Truth admircii." 



Another season has, in its course, brought the friends of Flora and Po- 

 mona together. They have exhibited and compared their various speci- 

 mens of flowers and fruits ; and notwithstanding the season has been un- 

 usually hot and dry, still the earth has yielded her increase, and our hall 

 has been decorated with the things that delight the eye, and our tables load- 

 ed with fruits of the choichest kinds. 



The hall of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society was opened to the 

 pubhc at noon on Wednesday Sept. 22d ; and, although the Mechanics' 

 Fair was drawing thousands to admire the works of Art, the hall was soon 

 filled with visiters. It is with pleasure we record the fact, that the taste for 

 fruits and the love of flowers are on the increase. The exhibition closed on 

 Friday, at 9 o'clock p. m. ; and though the weather was unfavorable, yet 

 the room was filled with company, many of whom retired with reluctance— 

 an evidence of the interest felt by the public in the science of horticulture. 



With these few introductory remarks, we submit the following report :— 



FLOWERS. 



Our friends are aware that this is not the season^ with the exception of 

 ttie dahha, for fine flowers ; we shall therefore confine our report to a list of 

 the names of the contributors, with a brief notice of such specimens as 

 were new, rare, or of great beauty. 



Plants in Pots— from the garden of J. P. Gushing, Esq. Watertow-n ; by 

 Messrs. Winship, Brighton ; from the Botanic Garden, Cambridge, by W. 

 E. Carter ; from the Public Garden, Boston, by John Cadness ; by S. Sweet- 

 ser, Woburn ; by J. T. Smith, Roxbury ; by E. N. Perkins, Roxbury, and 

 Messrs. P. Barnes, Thos. Willot and T. H. Felt, of Boston. 



