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There is also a large basket containing ninety-five 

 fine Bartlett pears, the product of one small tree, 

 three years from the graft, from Mr. Maeintire of 

 Somerville. Mr. B. V. French of Braintree, ex- 

 hibited over one hundred varieties of pears, some 

 of them very fine specimens, and about the same 

 number of varieties are exhibited by Mr. Manning 

 of Salem. 



The lower floor, including the large room rent- 

 ed by Mr. Bowditch, for the New England Seed 

 Store, is crowded with apples, peaches, plums, 

 and vegetables, the great variety of which, as 

 well as »heir magnitude and beauty, must attract 

 great attention from all persons of taste. We 

 never saw a finer exhibition of apples; Mr. B. V. 

 French exhibits about one hundred and forty tine 

 varieties, including probably' all the best kinds cul- 

 tivated. Over these the Gloria Mundi, as large as 

 good sized pumpkins, seems to reign supreme. 

 A. D. Williams k Son, of Roxbur}^ exhibit some 

 tliirty or forty varieties, among which we parti- 

 cularly noticed as most conspicuous, the Queen of 

 the Orchard. Some Baldwins, from L. G. Lake, 

 of Topsficld, are uncommonly fine; also the apples 

 from J. B. Moore of Concord, and James Eustis 

 of South Reading. Mr. Eustis exhibited liiirty 

 varieties. 



The peaches and other fine fruits, occupy a large 

 table in the library room, and form a pleasing ob- 

 ject of stud}' for the painter and epicure. They 

 look most tempting. Some varieties, as for in- 

 stance the early Crawford, are very fine. So also 

 are the specimens of nectarines and plums. 



The vegetables are conveniently arranged on the 

 lower floor, and should not be forgotten, constitu- 

 ting as they do, by no means the least important 

 part of the exhibition. Among the contributions 

 we notice a variety of squashes, tomatoes, cab- 

 bages which can hardly be contained in a wash- 

 tub, corn, beans, &.c., from A. D. Williams of 

 Roxbury ; a fine lot of vegetables of the same kind 

 from A. Parker of Roxbury ; potatoes, cauliflow- 

 ers, squashes, &c., well worth looking at, from 

 Lyman Kingsley of Canton ; a noble Yankee pump- 

 kin, from Nahum Stetson of Bridgwater; an en- 

 ormous Jersey squash, from A. A. Andrews of 

 Roxbury; large Marrow squashes, from J. A. 

 Lowell of Roxbury ; Old Colon}^ Sweet corn, a 

 new and prolific variety, from A. R. Pope of Som- 

 erville; and some magnificent vegetables of vari- 

 ous kinds, from J. B. Moore of Concord, such as 

 beets 30 inches in length, and parships nearlj' as 

 large, turnips of several kinds, and fine-looking 

 melons. There are also some fine Marrow 

 squashes, from John Schouler of Cambridge, and 

 Crook-necked squashes. Egg Apple, and other ve- 

 getables, from J. Gordon of Brighton. 



A full description, however, even if we had time 

 to write it, would convey but an imperfect idea of 

 the beauty and excellence, and variety of the good 

 things now on exhibition at the Society's Rooms in 

 School-street. Even if it would, afull description 



would be unnecessary, as all persons of taste who 

 take the slightest interest in such productions — 

 and who docs not? — will go and examine for them- 

 selves. Boston Journal. 



Worcester Horticultural Society's Annu- 

 al Exhibition. — The Committee are of the opin- 

 ion that a finer display of fruit than that which they 

 were called upon to examine, has never been ex- 

 hibited within the limits of New England, outside 

 of the city of Boston. The lovers of fruits and 

 flowers may well congratulate themselves upon 

 the measure of prosperity to which the society has 

 attained ; gratifying as it is for the present ; en- 

 couraging as we hope it may be for the future. 

 One thing cannot fail to be noticed, that the po- 

 mological resources of the society have wonderful- 

 ly increased within a comparatively short period 

 of time. 



Ten years ago, there were placed upon a few 

 small tables in an obscure room, three or four do- 

 zen dishes of apples — chiefly of the most common 

 varieties, — a few plates- of pears — kindly given or 

 reluctantly lent for the occasion by cultivators re- 

 siding within the territory proper of the Mass. 

 Hort. Society — a score or two of quinces, and one 

 solitary sample of the peach. To make out the 

 attractions of the display, the room itself was de- 

 corated with paintings. These and other prepa- 

 rations having been made, the people (counted as 

 easily by scores as by hundreds) assembled to wit- 

 ness the first regular exhibition held by the society. 



A few years have passed away, and the society 

 have just held their eleventh annual exhibition. 

 Their large and commodious hall was filled with 

 tables, leaving only passage ways between them. 

 Upon these were arranged twelve hundreil plates 

 of beautiful fruit, all carefully labelled! Besides 

 the members of the society, more than two thou- 

 sand visitors crowded into the hall to examine and 

 compare the fruits, and to become bewildered by 

 the profusion that surrounded them. 



The display of pears alone comprised nearly 

 four hundred plates, containing specimens of not 

 less than seventy varieties. 



Of apples, there was a still greater quantity, 

 although the number of known varieties might 

 have been less. 



More than thirty varieties of the peach were ex- 

 hibited, among which were several fine and bca'i- 

 tiful seedlings. Although late, and in an unpro- 

 pitious season, the best collection numbered not 

 less than thirteen valuable varieties of plum — a 

 cheering evidence that, in despite of black excres- 

 cence, the rot. and the curculio, it is not yet time 

 to despair of this favorite fruit. 



Of grapes grown under glass, a single cultiva- 

 tor, D. W. Lincoln Esq. of this city, exhibited 

 nine varieties. 



Several specimens of the grape grown in open 

 culture where upon the tables, but they were 

 mostly unripe. There were also fine quinces 



