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son and daughter of our race. It is the universality of flowers 

 rather than the aristocratic green-house, which is to bless and har- 

 monize the world. 



And hero we cannot forbear to mention a most ag^favated evil, 

 that there are seedsmen of the present day, who at high prices sell 

 seeds, not one in a hundred of which they well know, will vegetate, 

 and of those which do germinate, scarcely one to a hundred will 

 prove true to their label. To obviate this evil many cultivators are 

 returning to the good old way of raising their own seeds from their 

 choicest stocks, and exchanging their superabundance for other 

 choice varieties with their neighbors. 



It should be known that more than twenty choice varieties of 

 flower seeds may be sent three thousand miles for one letter stamp. 

 The Andover Horticultural Society, which has been in successful 

 operation four years, has taken advantage of this governmental 

 privilege, and gathered to itself rich treasures from all sections of 

 the globe. Besides its transatlantic exchanges, it has -withm 

 the past year exchanged more than six hundred packages of 

 many varieties of seeds, with individuals in seventeen different 

 States of the Union. No seed of a beautiful flower, no element of 

 a desirable vegetable, should be wasted. Somebody wants it, and 

 will gladly repay in something more valuable to you all your cost 

 in transferring it to them. We cannot close without saying that 

 the refined taste of the citizens of Haverhill has come up most admi- 

 rably to this occasion, and proved themselves worthy " to have and to 

 hold " frequent similar exhibitions in their beautiful town. Nor 

 would we neglect mentioning the exquisite presentations of Michael 

 Moriarty, who, as the gardener of Samuel Lawrence, Esq., is uni- 

 versally acknowledged the " Michael Angela " of floriculture in 

 Andover. Nor less meritorious is John Hart, of Gen. H. K. Oli. 

 ver's garden, whose magnificent dahlies have not been equalled the 

 present season at any horticultural exhibition in the state. The 

 gigantic and magnificent pyramids of flowers presented by George 

 J. Thornton, professional horticulturist, of Lawrence, evinced artistic 

 skill and a zeal for beautifying your hall worthy of all commenda- 

 tion. The above contributors and others whose names are in the 

 following catalogue, expended more on this occasion than the whole 

 amount of the gratuities, which arc aiyarded as follows : 



