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Amcsbury liad its Horticultural Society, which had been in- 

 stituted, not as as a rival or competitor of the County Socie- 

 ty, but as a means of developing the resources of the locality. 

 Their Society had proved a success, and he would be glad to 

 welcome the Institute to their exhibition next Fall. Last 

 years exhibition showed that good stone fruit can be raised 

 in the vicinity, and fine cherries and plums were presented. 

 The trees manifested little if any effects of canker worms. 



Rev. Mr. BEAMAN of Salem, who had been one of the par- 

 ty that visited the ancient relics, added to the statement of 

 Mr. Goodell the fact that he had that day seen the first com- 

 munion-service of the church in Salisbury, two flagons and 

 a baptismal bason of pewter, procured in London two hun- 

 dred-years ago. Also, four large folio volumes, of 600 pages 

 each, of Richard Baxter's practical works, presented to the 

 "Congregation of Protestant Dissenters, at Salisbury, in the 

 county of Essex, in New England, who arc at present under 

 the charge of the Rev. Mr. Caleb Gushing." In the burial- 

 ground the following inscriptions were thought worthy of 

 notice. On one stone : " Here lies interred what was mortal 

 of ye reverend Mr. James Allen, late teacher of the gospel and 

 pastor of ye church of Christ in Salisbury, who died March 

 7, 1695, in the 37th year of his age." On the stone of the 

 widow of Capt. Wm. Buswell, who died March 5, 1708, 

 aged 83 years, are these words : " Reader, stand off, and thy 

 due distance keep ; For in this bed a friend of Christ doth 

 sleep." Mr. Beaman subsequently called attention to a 

 project started in Amesbury in 1849, to erect a monument 

 to the memory of JOSIAH BARTLETT, a native of the town, 

 who signed the .Declaration of American Independence, im- 

 mediately under the name of John Hancock. Some of the 

 money has beca subscribed, but more is wanted to enable 



