Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . four colors, the outside black, the nextmaroon, the third bright mottled and the fourthverj- light, this so situated that we looked across itlengthwise and the colors blended and produced amuch finer effect than the same varieties arrangedin a circular bed similarly situated. expression of the Societys regard for the lateMr. Wilder made a report, of which the fol-lowing is a brief abstract: For fifty-six years Marshall Pinckney Wilderhas been a constant and an active member. Hisloss see
Popular gardening and fruit growing; An illustrated periodical devoted to horticulture in all its branches . four colors, the outside black, the nextmaroon, the third bright mottled and the fourthverj- light, this so situated that we looked across itlengthwise and the colors blended and produced amuch finer effect than the same varieties arrangedin a circular bed similarly situated. expression of the Societys regard for the lateMr. Wilder made a report, of which the fol-lowing is a brief abstract: For fifty-six years Marshall Pinckney Wilderhas been a constant and an active member. Hisloss seems for the present to change the very char-acter of our society. A specially kind Providence seems to have smiledupon his enthusiastic love of Nature and his effortsto develop the works of the Creator. With grati-tude do we acknowledge the wide and lasting influ-ence which Mr. Wilder has exerted in his favoritepiu-suit of horticulture, an influence which isrecognized wherever our art is known. We shallcherish the memory of his unflagging zeal in everybranch of horticulture, his example in skillful cul-. have had for a proper display three times the floorspace that could be given them. The weekly exhi-bitions have attracted more vLsitors than ever be-fore; the exhibitions of native plants have beenparticularly extensive and instructive. Generous provision has been made for prizes atthe annual exhibition of this year, which is to beheld in conjunction with the American PomologicalSociety. The great hall of the MassachusettsCharitable Mechanics Association has been securedfor this occasion. The library still increases in sizeand usefulness, but the inconveniences of thehbrary room become also more noticeable. The appropriations previously recommended by the executive committee, viz., for prizes S*J,;4, for the library committee (including the card catalogue of plates) SWO, for the committee on publication and discussion $250, and for the committee of $300, came up
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