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which, with tliose exhibited, the Committee think deserve further attention 

 from the Society. 



The Annual Exhibition of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 ; Society will be held on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, the 17th, 18th, 

 ; and 19th of September next, as will be seen by a reference to the doings of 

 1 the Society, in another page. The place where it will be held has been re- 

 ferred to a committee, who will report at a future meeting. — Ed. 



Estalishment of a Bureau of Agriculture. — The Vermont Legis- 

 lature, at a late session, voted to petition Congress to establish a Bureau of 

 Agriculture, and in accordance with that vote, appointed a committee to in- 

 quire into the subject and report upon the same. This report which is of 

 considerable length, was accepted by the Legislature, and approved by the 

 ..Governor. We shall notice it in another number. — Ed. 



Art. IIL Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, Januaiy 5, 1S50. — The stated quarterly meeting of the Society 

 was held to-day— the President in the chair. 



The President, on opening the meeting, stated that it had not been custom- 

 ary to address the members, yet in the present condition of the Society, some 

 suf gestions had occurred to him, which he thought proper to lay before them. 

 His address was as follows : — 



Gentlemen of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society : Your unanimous 

 suffrages have again placed me in a position that demands my thanks for the 

 honor conferred. 



The past, tlie present, and the anticipations of the future, cheer my path, 

 as I feel assured I shall have your hearty cooperation in all my endeavors to 

 promote the interest of the science of Horticulture. 



The year which has just closed, has removed from us one of our respected 

 and beloved members. His munificent bequest to this Society demands our 

 grateful remembrance, and the specimens of his taste for the beautiful, 

 in the highest branch of our science — landscape gardening — will com- 

 mand the attention and admhation of all who visit the spot rendered so lovely 

 by the genius of his own elevated mind. 



Landscape Gardening is a branch of Horticulture, which the wealthy only 

 in other countries, can carry out with success, but in our extensive and free 

 domains, every industrious and enterprising man, with a love of Nature 

 cherished within his breast, may surround himself with the beautiful. 



Improvements in this department may be seen in the grounds of the late 

 Hon. Theodore Lyman, the Hon. Thomas H. Perkins of Brookline, J. P. 

 Gushing, Esq. of Watertown, Hon. M. P. Wilder, and Samuel Downer, Jr., 

 Esq., of Dorchester, and Otis Johnson, Esq. of Lynn. Nor can I refrain 

 from noticing the great improvements made in the nurseries generally, but 

 more particularly in the respective establishments of Messrs. Winship, of 



