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garden of R. L. Pell, of Pelham, Ulster county, consisting of very 

 large mangold wurtzels, true blood-beets, carrots, parsneps, sugar 

 beets, Patagonian gourds, five feet eight inches long, squashes weigh- 

 ing 152 and 200 pounds, ten varieties of table squashes and cabbages, 

 weighing thirty pounds. Mr. P. also presented very beautiful sam- 

 ples of fine heavy wheat, rye, oats, buckwheat, Egyptian corn and 

 wheat, Indian corn seventeen feet high, yellow and white flint, and 

 sweet corn, forty varieties of seedling and twenty-seven of grafted 

 apples, Catawba and Isabella grapes grown under glass, very large 

 gooseberries, three kinds of currants, a floral ornament seventeen feet 

 high, shad from his fish ponds, &c. Some other collections also ex- 

 hibited great excellence and skill in culture. 



Among the Agricultural and Horticultural products, was an enor- 

 mous pumpkin of the seven years variety, weighing 126 pounds, some 

 heads of millet a foot In length, and some Washington peaches, ten 

 inches in circumference, and weighing eleven ounces, all presented 

 by Mrs. Vassar, of Poughkeepsie. 



One of the most truly valuable and meritorious articles ever shown 

 at any fair in this country, was a neat glass case, containing thirty-five 

 varieties of wheat ; heads and shelled specimens of each variety, being 

 arranged with great neatness in separate apartments of the case. A 

 large portion of these were cultivated, and all arranged and presented 

 by Gen. R. Harmon, of Wheatland, Monroe co., whose labors in test- 

 ing the various qualities of different sorts, have already proved of so 

 much value to the agriculture of this country. 



Numerous paintings of cattle, horses, and of rural scenes, decorated 

 the walls on each side. 



The second building, inscribed "LADIES' HOME," was en- 

 riched with a gorgeous display, consisting of a vast collection 

 of articles of taste, splendor, and skill, among which were spe- 

 cimens of needle-work on screens, coverlets, rugs, chairs, and in 

 landscapes ; temples of shell-w^ork, and other things of equal interest. 

 So fine, indeed, was this display of fancy productions, that we 

 were almost led to question the propriety of thus eclipsing the more 

 humble, but pre-eminently useful and substantial products also hand- 

 somely arranged here, among which were many excellent specimens 

 of quilts and other articles of domestic use and comfort, conferring 

 the highest credit on the truly w^orthy contributors. 



The third building, entitled " MANUFACTURER'S LODGE," 



