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3. Economical and medicinal plants, an abundant, never 

 failing source, from which the arts, medicine and even agri- 

 culture are constantly drawing ; 



4. Ornamental plants, which are divided into such as 

 flower in the open air, either annual or perennial, for the 

 decoration of pleasure grounds and groves ; and exotics, 

 that require the shelter of green houses or hot houses ; 



5. Parks and landscape gardens, establishments, that are 

 connected, at once, with the observation of nature, the study 

 of the arts, and likewise with the knowledge of the human 

 heart, if, as is intended, they throw any charm around our 

 transitory dwellings. 



Each of these divisions deserving, in order to be well 

 treated, particular attention, and requiring peculiar skill, the 

 Horticultural Society has appointed from among its mem- 

 bers, a committee on nurseries, who are occupied in the cul- 

 ture and improvement of fruit trees ; a committee on kitchen 

 gardens ; a committee on economical and medicinal plants ; 

 a committee on ornamental plants, growing either in the 

 open air, green houses or hot houses ; and a committee on 

 the composition of gardens. 



The society has likewise given to its own labors and to its 

 correspondence, a more precise direction, and furnished 

 some results, that might be truly valuable. 



These committees, with whom are associated a committee 

 of the funds, a committee for publishing the Annals, and the 

 officers properly so called, compose a council of administra- 

 tion, that meet twice a month. They direct the labors of 

 the society, the employment of the funds, and every thing 

 that relates to the administration. 



They propose and encourage the making of experiments, 

 and the attempting of new methods of culture. 



The members of the society share in the useful results, 

 that they obtain by their efforts. 



The council carry on a correspondence with all the horti- 

 cultural societies; they communicate to them, and in their 

 turn, receive all the instructions, that may concur to the pro- 

 gress of the art. 



They request explanations concerning the most remarka- 

 ble productions of horticulture, and determine the soil and 

 the times, that promote their growth. 



They call together, at least once a year, the members of 

 the society in a general meeting, to present the account of 



