. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. homas McEuen, E. Meredith, J. , Thomas C. Percival, Richard Price, PeterRaabe, John Rutherford, Jr., S. R- Simmons, , C. S. Smith, Wra. S. Vaux, Dr. G. Watson,and G. Zantzinger. Members elected: John O. Hughes, Florist, Tren-ton, N. J.; Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, Newark, S. Austin Allibone. The annual meeting of the Society was held onJanuary 19, 1847— On motion, Mr. W. H. Dillingham, was calledto the chair, and Charles Stephen Smith, appointedSecretary. The chair appointed Messrs. Zantzinger andMeredith teller
. The Horticulturist and journal of rural art and rural taste. homas McEuen, E. Meredith, J. , Thomas C. Percival, Richard Price, PeterRaabe, John Rutherford, Jr., S. R- Simmons, , C. S. Smith, Wra. S. Vaux, Dr. G. Watson,and G. Zantzinger. Members elected: John O. Hughes, Florist, Tren-ton, N. J.; Dr. Thomas B. Wilson, Newark, S. Austin Allibone. The annual meeting of the Society was held onJanuary 19, 1847— On motion, Mr. W. H. Dillingham, was calledto the chair, and Charles Stephen Smith, appointedSecretary. The chair appointed Messrs. Zantzinger andMeredith tellers, who reported, after the ballotting,that the following named gentlemen were dulyelected officers: President: Caleb Cope. Vice-Presidents: General R. Patterson, DavidLandreth, James Dundas, and Joshua Longstreth. Treasurer: John Thomas. Corresponding Secretary : Thomas C. Percival. Recording Secretary : Thomas P. James. Which result was announced by the chairman,and those gentlemen declared duly elected. p. James, Rec. Secy. THE ^^?^iiMt •>. JOURNAL OF RURAL ART Affl) RURAL TASTE. Vol. I. MARCH, 1S47. No. 9. The man who loves not trees, to lookat them, to lie under them, to climb upthem, (once more a schoolboy) would makeno bones of murdering Mrs. Jeffs. In whatone imaginable attribute, that it ought to pos-sess, is a tree, pray, deficient ? Light, shade,shelter, coolness, freshness, music,—all thecolors of the rainbow, dew and dreams drop-ping through their soft twilight, at eve andmorn,—dropping direct, soft, sweet, sooth-ing, restorative from heaven. Withont trees,how, in the name of wonder, could we havehad houses, ships, bridges, easy chairs, orcoffins, or almost any single one of the ne-cessaries, comforts, or conveniences of life ?Without trees, one man might have beenborn with a silver spoon in his mouth, butnot another with a wooden ladle. of sympathy with the good and beautiful,must involuntarily respond to this rhapsodyof Christopher Norths, in be
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