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John Curtain, Portland, gardener for J. B. Brown, showed two 

 large squashes weighing eighty and ninety-seven pounds. 



Moses Gould, Portland, one squash weighing eighty-five pounds. 



E. Mackenzie, Westbrook, gardener for James E. Fernald, very 

 fine squashes, nearly pure marrow. 



J. Bradford, Portland, very large custard squashes ; a variety too 

 watery to be very generally cultivated. 



Samuel Chadwick, Portland, marrow and other squashes of large 

 size. Also celery, medium size and well blanched. 



Jason Webb, Windham, showed a specimen of squash or pumpkin 

 weighing sixty-one pounds. 



Lewis P. Warren, Westbrook, a good collection of squashes, pump- 

 kins, turnips, and turnip-rooted parsnips. 



John Bell, Scarborough, two marrow squashes. Also celery, 

 large, and well blanched. 



E. Mackenzie, samples of celery well grown. 



John Curtain showed one large cantelope melon. 



James Hutchins, Yarmouth, gave a statement in regard to the 

 culture of carrots and Ruta Baga turnips ; the former produced at 

 the rate of eleven hundred and ninety-six bushels per acre. Recom- 

 mend the first premium. 



Mr. Hutchins' Statement. The soil was a reddish sandy loam; 

 planted to potatoes the year previous, with a light coat of sea-dress- 

 ing, ploughed ten inches deep. Expense %1. Used four cords of 

 manure. Sowed Orange carrots about the 10th of June, in drill 

 rows two feet apart. Hoed twice at the cost of ,|i3. Planted twen- 

 ty-four rods at an expense of ^10 50. Raised one hundred and 

 sixty-eight bushels. 



Frederick Waterhouse, Scarborough, presented a bushel of Potato 

 onions with mode of culture, having raised forty bushels on one- 

 twelfth of an acre, it being at the rate of four hundred and eighty 

 bushels per acre. 



Mr. Water/louse's Statemeiit. I, the subscriber, do hereby 

 certify, that I, this year, raised upon thirteen and one-third square 

 rods of land, situated in Scarborough, Cumberland county, Maine — , 

 forty bushels of onions. 



I do also certify, that the soil upon which the aforesaid onions 

 were raised, is a rich, sandy loam, neither very wet nor very dry ; 



