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on your time. This record contains among others the 

 illustrious names of Bacon, Evelyn, Addison, Cowper, 

 Pope, Temple, Allison, Du Hamel, Knight, Van Mons, 

 Soulange Bodin, Thouin, Repton, Miller, Darwin, Poiteau, 

 Loudon, Hooker, Lindley, Mackintosh, Hosack, Prince, 

 Fessenden, Buel, and Downing. 



Of those of Garden, Frazer, Lyon, Pursh, Michaux, 



•Douglas, Nuttall, Bigelow, Gray, Hartweg, Fortune, Lobb, 



Humboldt, Catesby, Siebold, Veitch, Russell, and others, 



who have explored all parts of the globe, and gathered in 



countless profusion the untold treasures of every clime. 



Of the names of Gray, Loddiges, Lee, Knight, Perry, 

 Van Houtte, Leroy, Veitch, Verschaffelt, Linden, Vilmorin, 

 and other practical cultivators, who have not only introduced 

 at immense cost thousands of plants, but by their skill in 

 growing and propagating them have increased and dupli- 

 cated their number until they have become the inmates of 

 every garden. 



To attempt in your presence to eulogize the pursuit of 

 Horticulture, in which so many of you are engaged, and in 

 which you have experienced so much delight, would be an 

 idle waste of time. To refer to the production of new fruits 

 and new flowers, so rapidly augmented of late years by the 

 now well-known and reliable process of hybridization, — to 

 their various modes of propagation, now so well understood 

 by skilful men, — to their cultivation, systems of pruning, 

 &c., or to their relative value for the market or garden, — 

 would be at the risk of tiring your patience. You have 



