Excerpt from An Address Delivered Before the Brooklyn Horticultural Society: December 7th, 1854 The able address of its President, delivered before the Society at the annual meeting, gives the outline of the transactions of the past year, and a full state ment of the objects and purposes of the Society. 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.