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From this period the Society went on flourishingly, at 

 the close of the year numbering two hundred and fifty 

 members. The exhibitions were continued, and the inter- 

 est in them increased so rapidly that more space and better 

 accommodations were needed, and rooms were taken In the 

 third story of Joy's Building. Here the Society remained 

 till 1835, when a larger and more commodious room was 

 obtained in Cornhill. It was at this period that the impor- 

 tant change took place which has been so highly beneficial 

 to both the Society and Mt. Auburn Cemetery, and has 

 been in part the means by which you have been enabled to 

 erect these walls. Owing to the various interests of both 

 the Experimental Garden and Cemetery it was deemed ex- 

 pedient to form two associations, the Society relinquishing 

 the fee of the property, but retaining an interest in the 

 sales of lots. It was after much consideration arranged to 

 the satisfaction of all parties. 



From Cornhill the Society removed to Tremont Row, 

 where, with a still larger room, in fact a fair-sized hall, they 

 remained until the erection of the old hall in School Street, 

 which was built in 1844 and dedicated in May, 1845. 

 During this period of nearly sixteen years, the members 

 had continually increased, and the interest in horticulture 

 was unabated. The annual exhibitions were so extensive 

 as to require the largest hall in the city to display the in- 

 creasing quantity of fruits. It was from this period that 

 the Society began to take that prominent position, which it 

 has since maintained throughout the country. By the 



