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of the Society required ; and we are liappy to say that 

 we have had their personal exertion and influence in 

 carrying out our leading designs, Loth of utility and 

 beauty. In this building, erected for the noble pur- 

 pose of disseminating the arts and literature, we trust 

 that we have added one more gem to its adornment. 

 And while within its walls the orator was dissemina- 

 ting the most thrilling sentiments, and his eloquence 

 enchanting every heart with its pathos and truth, we 

 were furnishing fresh from the fields of nature, the liv- 

 ing symbols and metaphors that adorned his subject. 



The two earliest exhibitions were given on the first 

 Thursdays in March and April, and comprised a most 

 beautiful show of hot and green-house plants, as well 

 as a great variety of boquets, most artistically arranged. 

 The chief contributors were — Mr. Humphrey, Gardner 

 to Fisher Howe, Esq.; Mr. Callopy, Gardner to James 

 H. Prentice, Esq. ; Mr. Hamblin, Gardner to William C. 

 Langley, Esq. ; Mr. James Weir, Florist, Bay Ridge ; 

 Mr. George Ingram, Greenwood; also Messrs. Graef, 

 Parks, Pointer, Benton, and J. E. Ranch, Third Avenue. 

 At one of these exhibitions, the Society was gratified 

 with the display of seedling camelias, from the Green- 

 house of Noel J. Becar, Esq., and being the productions 

 of an amateur, added largely to their interest ; the 

 admiration they excited, was nothing more than a just 

 tribute to their beauty. The Society feel indebted for 

 the marked attention from this gentleman, and the 

 compliment associated with it the reminiscence of the 



