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let us also point to some ever present and blooming 

 token of our land^ which will meet us in the field, 

 cheer us in absence, and delight us every where, 

 and which to the dying patriot's eye shall revive 

 the recollection of his home and country— 



^Sternitur infelix alieno vulnere 5 ccElumque 

 Aspicit, et dulces moriens reminiscitur Argos.' 



To fix then upon this emblem is a task I commend 

 to our fair countrywomen, who should indeed^ 

 present it as a gift from the beautiful to the brave, 

 with which to return victorious, or return no more. 



These are the refined charms of Horticulture, 

 and thus is your Society recommended At this 

 celebration it invites men of all conditions in fife to 

 come forward here, in Maryland, and devote not 

 their gold and silver, but their leisure and taste to 

 the most interesting cause and the most delightful 

 recreation. — The motives, the land we inhabit, the 

 resources of our people, and the innate value and 

 purity of the pursuit itself, have been alluded to, 

 and all call on us to lend our influence to its pro- 

 motion.— The tired and worn down citizen shall be 

 refreshed by it, for to green fields and healthful 

 exercises we introduce him while living ; and 

 there is a spot preparing for him, when dead, almost 

 within sight of this hall, a place of repose,— a city of 

 silence, which by the enterprise of many connected 

 with this Society, shall ere long realize the prophet's 

 vision that made paradise the home of the dead. 



