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The committee cannot close their report, without expressing to the society 

 their satisfaction at the beautiful display of choice and rare flowers offered 

 for exhibition, nearly all of which exhibited great skill in their respective 

 growers. — Wm. Newcomb, Chairman. 



Floral Designs, Bouquets, &c. — The committee beg leave to report 

 that Dr. Herman Wendell exhibited a large pyramidal floral design, com- 

 posed of roses, pinks, lilies, verbenas, &c. &c. — a centre-table bouquet 

 composed of rare roses, phloxes, pinks, verbenas, &c. «Sic. — a basket-bou- 

 quet with handle composed of rare rose-buds, pansies, pinks, verbenas, for- 

 get-me-nots, &c. &c. on a moss ground, to which the committee awarded 

 the premium of S 2 00. 



Mr. E. P. Prentice exhibited a large round bouquet for centre-table, and 

 composed of roses, larkspurs, pseonies, &c. &c., to which they have 

 awarded a disci-etionary premium of $ 1 00. Mr. James Wilson exhibited 

 a large flat bouquet for mantel vase, composed of roses, hydrangeas, lark- 

 spurs, peeonies, honeysuckles, &c. — a flat hand bouquet, composed of 

 hoyas, scabious, epacris, camellias, moss rose-buds, pinks, geraniums, &c., 

 to which the committee awarded the premium of $ 1 00— also a round 

 hand bouquet composed of about the same varieties, to which the commit- 

 tee awarded the premium of $1 00. Mr. J. Rathbone exhibited two beau- 

 tiful basket bouquets, with handles composed of roses, pinks, &c. — also a 

 large pyramidal floral design. Mr. D. T. Vail exhibited a large round bou- 

 quet for centre-table vase, composed of roses, pinks, larkspurs, calceola- 

 rias, &c., to which the committee awarded the premium of $2 00. 



Mr. Wm. Newcomb exhibited a large flat bouquet for mantel vase, com- 

 posed of a choice collection of rare and beautiful perennial and biennial 

 flowers : — verbenas, ten varieties, Campanula pyramidalis, Pearl flower, 

 pelargonium, periwinkle, pinks, Dianthus barbatus, varieties, carnation, lon- 

 icera, trumpet monthly, do. variegated, Cyanus-Major, six varieties, roses, 

 Burnet, red moss, Nigra, Bulton, Ferox and four other varieties. Delphinium 

 ajacis, do. Bee, do. grandiflora, do. caerulea, French rocket, phloxes, lilies, 

 polemoniums, white and purple, Polemoniums Greek, Lupinus polyphyllus, 

 Feathered hyacinth, Flos adonis, Iris, yellow and blue, columbines, Rose aca- 

 cia. Gum acacia. Musk flower, Pseonies, Whitleji, Humei and fragrans, 

 myosotis, garden elder. Ragged robbin, to which the committee awarded 

 the premium of $2 00 ; also, a small hand bouquet, composed of roses, ver- 

 benas, Feathered hyacinths, Greek polemonium, &c. &c. 



Mr. John Wilcox exhibited a large floral design, of pyramidal shape and 

 leaning, (after the manner of the Tower of Pisa,) composed of roses, lilies, 

 pseonies, larkspurs, pinks, campanulas, valerians, phloxes, &c. &c., $2 00. 

 — John B. Gale, Chairman. 



Vegetables : The committee on vegetables respectfully report, that al- 

 though the weather for the past month has been very unfavorable to the 

 growth and ripening of all vegetables in the open air in this vicinity, there 

 was presented quite a respectable show of a number of varieties of very fine 

 esculents in competition for premiums. V. P. Douw exhibited Landreth's 

 early peas, four very beautiful heads of cauliflowers, (these attracted the 

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