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HORTICULTURE.

JULY, 1849.

ORIGINAL COMMUNICATIONS.

ART. I. Some Plants of Danvers and Wenham, Essex County, Massachusetts. By JOHN LEWIS RUSSELL, Professor of Botany, &c., to Massachusetts Horticultural Society.

MR. EDITOR,-As your magazine purports to treat of botany as well as of horticulture, an account of the results of a pleasant day's excursion in our woods, has been deemed, by those who undertook it, a proper offering to its pages. Should you concur in these views, an insertion of this article would oblige and gratify several amateurs of floral pursuits.

The Essex Institute was organized in Salem, Massachusetts, about a year since, by the union of the Essex Horticultural Society with the Essex County Natural History Society. This latter society had, for several years past, offered public exhibitions of fruits and flowers, and many of its members were favorably known, both abroad and through the pages of this magazine, as being successful in this branch of horticultural skill. In arranging the business of the year at the annual meeting, the Essex Institute, on the same liberal plan of fostering a taste for the beautiful and useful, appoints committees, who shall particularly attend to those departments of research assigned to them. Of these, is the horticultural committee, under whose auspices the arrangement of flower and fruit shows will be continued. Another committee may be mentioned, as pertaining more specially to subjects of natural history, under whose inspection and research the botany of the county falls. The chairman of this committee, with a party of about a dozen