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us thirty years ago by the West Indian emigrant) 

 were without this great auxihary and stimulant — 

 and that more regard and attention is not now 

 given to the Society. 



Around us^ and on every hand^ our hills and val- 

 leys are blooming with the growth of almost every 

 plant and tree^ and we are in our walks and rides 

 enchanted by the rich scenes which open from some 

 adjacent and once barren spot^ where ^emparadised 

 in flowers/ the cottage of the Horticulturist peeps 

 forth to win the heart and gratify the eye. 



Our markets too^ in the abundance they offer and 

 the returns they make to the industrious and thrifty 

 farmer and gardener^ will convince you^ that interest 

 as well as pleasure^ are moving onward hand in hand 

 in the diffusion and enlargement of the Society's bene- 

 fits— while by its direct agency^ every foot of ground 

 near our city^ and landed property generally in its 

 neighbourhood^ is rapidly enhanced in value^ and 

 by being converted into gardens and rural retreats^ 

 afford even to ^the dull edge of sated appetite/ some 

 luscious fruity or early plant and vegetable^ before 

 strangers to our boards — and then, the ornamental 

 trees which embosom so many cool sequestered coun- 

 try seats, where the invalid and man of business may 

 repair for renovation and repose — all proclaim with 

 most ^miraculous organ' the usefulness^ and the ele- 

 gant and refined pleasures of Horticulture. 



