Excerpt from Transactions of the Massachusetts Horticultural Society, for the Year 1876, Vol. 1 The Committee on Publication and Discussion take this opper tunity to repeat what they have heretofore stated, that the Society is not to be held responsible for the certainty of the statements or the correctness of the opinions expressed in the papers and dis eussions now or before published, but undertakes only to present these papers and discussions, or the substance of them, correctly. The award of a prize for an Essay is not to be understood as implying that the Committee approve it in every particular, but only that they believe it calculated, on the whole, to promote the science or art of Horticulture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.