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Robert INIanniiio- rofervod to the establishment of an Experi- 

 mental Garden, at Mount Auburn, by the Society, and said that, 

 in connection with it, General Dearborn, the first President, had 

 planned an "Institution for the Education of Scientific and Practi- 

 cal Gardeners." Tlie course of instruction was intended to cover 

 three years, and to embrace the sciences of Botany, Vegetable Phy- 

 siology, Chemistry, Mineralogy, Architecture, Hydraulics, Mechan- 

 ics, Entomology, and such other branches as are applicable to 

 Horticulture, the culture of fruit, forest, and ornamental trees, 

 shrubs, flowering plants, culinary, and such other vegetable pro- 

 ducts as are emploj'ed in the industrial arts ; also training in the 

 composition of landscape and picturesque gardens. Although this 

 portion of the plan was never carried out it showed the compre- 

 hensiveness of General Dearborn's views of horticulture that he 

 shoidd have devised such a plan. 



In answer to an inquiry as to how far the Experimental Garden 

 progressed, Mr. Manning said that at the close of the year 1832, 

 General Dearborn reported that the garden had been laid out, the 

 paths and avenues constructed and bordered with turf, and that 

 the whole would be in readiness for planting fruit and ornamental 

 trees in the spring. In May of the next year he reported that 

 under the direction of Mr. Haggerston, the gardener, more than 

 thirteen hundred fruit, forest, and ornamental trees had been 

 planted, and hot-beds had been prepared, and that among the seeds 

 sown were four hundred and fift}' varieties which had been sent 

 to the Society from Europe, Asia, and South America. The 

 reports of the meetings and exhibitions of the Society during that 

 and the next year, show that plants of vegetables were sent to the 

 Society's rooms for distribution to the members, and that a consid- 

 erable variety of flowers and vegetables were exhibited. When 

 the establishment at Mount Auburn was disposed of the garden 

 was necessarily given up, but this was regretted less than it would 

 otherwise have been, had not the experience of two seasons shown 

 that the soil was not adapted for an experimental garden. 



J. W. Manning referred to the Bussey Institution as the greatest 

 object lesson in America. It is a place where one can study 

 hardy tree and shrub growth from the originals, as the collections 

 include many forms not found elsewhere in this country, and not 

 in nursery catalogues. He mentioned as among other things, that 

 ihe apple is seen there with fruit which attains only the size of 



