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present pamphlet, the different shrubs and trees used for 

 hedging are noticed, and among others, Mr. Sayers thinks the 

 Osage orange very suitable. This was recommended in our 

 Magazine, eight or nine years ago, (Vol. II. p. 9,) by one of 

 our Virginia correspondents ; in the Middle and Western 

 States it will undoubtedly do well, but in New England it is 

 subject to injury by the severe winters. Some very good re- 

 marks are also added upon the planting of ornamental 

 trees, &lc. 



MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



In our report of the Festival in our last number, we were compelled to 

 omit a portion of nearly all the remarks made by the gentlemen who spoke 

 upon the occasion, among others, those of the President of the Society, but 

 in doing so, by an error of the paper from which they were copied, we con- 

 cluded in the middle of a paragraph ; in order therefore to give the proper 

 sense to the closing remarks we now add them entire : — 



" We have assembled to commemorate its 17th anniversary. We are 

 met in this Temple of Liberty, whose time-honored walls have oft resound- 

 ed to deeds of patriotism and benevolence, and we too have come up hither 

 for a benevolent object. We have not come to prepare by exciting debate 

 for the political contest, nor for the discussion of those subjects that agitate 

 society to its very centre. We are not here to share the spoils of party, or 

 to rejoice in the victories of the sword that has poured out the blood of our 

 fellow beings like water on the earth. No, we have come for a richer and 

 nobler object. We come to celebrate the peaceful triumphs of Horticulture 

 — to advance a science that tends to the preservation and happiness of our 

 race — that adds to the enjoyments and refinements of life — that administers 

 to the luxuries and comforts of our neighbor — a pursuit that renders home 

 Btill more lovely and attractive — that invigorates the body, tranquilizes the 

 mind, chastens the affections, elevates the thoughts — and rightly viewed, 

 should fill the soul with emotions of gratitude and devotion to that bountiful 

 Creator, who 



" Sends Nature forth the daughter of the skies, 

 To dwell on earth and charm all human eyes." 



Amidst the array of beauty, intellect, and learning that I witness around 

 me, I have not the presumption to detain you from the rich intellectual re- 

 past with which you will be favored in the remarks of others. 



I cannot conclude, however, without alluding to the grace and elegance 

 bestowed on our feast by woman — to her — who 



" Still is fairest found where all is fair." 

 Ladies — we welcome you with all our hearts — without the light of youT 

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