458 Massachusetts HorticiiUural Society. 



AWARD OF PREMIUMS ON FRUITS. 



Summer Apples. — To A. D. Williams & Son, for the best Summer ap- 

 ples, the Williams, $6. 

 To Otis Johnson, for the second best, the Red Astrachan, ^4. 



Special Prizes for Apples. — To A. D. Williams & Son, for the Wil- 

 liams apple, ^5. 

 To Otis Johnson, for the Red Astrachan, $5. 



Vegetables: From John Quant, e^g plants. From J. L. L. F. War- 

 ren, Snake cucumbers. From Josiah Richardson, tomatoes, very large. 



September IQlh. — An adjourned meeting- of the Society was held to-day, 

 — the President in the chair. 



A delegation was appointed to attend the annual exhibition of the Penn- 

 sylvania Horticultural Society. 



R, Manning was elected a Life Member of the Society, and the usual 

 ayment remitted. 



Adjourned one week to September 23d. 



Sept. I9lh, 20th, and 2lst. — Jhe Twentieth Annual Exhihition of the Soci- 

 ety wa.she\d on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the 19th, 20th, and 21st 

 of September, at Faneuil Hall. 



Fourteen years ago, in the autumn of 1834, the Society held its 6th An- 

 nual Exhibition in Faneuil Hall, a full account of which appears in the 

 first volume of our Magazine. For beauty of arrangement, brilliancy of 

 appearance, and general effect, we hesitate not to say, that the Exhibition 

 of 1834 was superior to that of 1848. This, however, must be wholly at- 

 tributed to the Floral decorations, and the Floral contributions ; for, at that 

 period, the contributions of fruit were small indeed ; now, however, these have 

 increased to such an extent, that even all the room offered by this old Hall, 

 was hardly ample for its display. It was by far the most interesting part 

 of the exhibition. 



The centre of the hall was set with four tables, which were completely 

 filled with fruit ; two other tables on each side, under the galleries, were 

 also filled with fruit, and, in front of these, a great quantity of the finest 

 vegetables ever exhibited in Boston. The platform was filled with the 

 choicest plants, elegantly arranged ; the columns were wreathed with flow- 

 ers, and surmounted with capitals of flower and holly leaves, on each side 

 of the gallery ; the pannels were filled the same as at the last festival, with 

 the names of Prince, Fessenden, Lowell, Buel, Manning, Van Mons, Du- 

 hamel, Jussieu, Linnaeus, Decandolle, Douglass, Plumier, Michaux, Lou- 

 don and Knight. 



Over the platform, and behind the President's chair, were the words, 

 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY ; 

 XXth Annual Exhibition. 



Upon its supporting columns were the names of Dearborn, Cook, Vose, 

 and Wilder, Presidents of the Society, on one side ; and, on the other, 

 those of Appleton, Bradlee, Lowell and Lyman, benefactors. 



On the wall, on the right of the President's chair, was the motto, 

 *' The breath of orchards big with bending fruits ;" 



