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and, on the left, a line from Plorace Smith's beautiful " Hymn to the Flow- 

 ers :" 



" Your voiceless lips, O Flowers, are living preachers!" 

 Other appropriate mottoes were also suspended over the gallery, on the oppo- 

 site wall. 



On the main floor of the Hall, were four long tables, filled with fruit; 

 underneath each gallery, a table, also filled with fruit : in the rear of these, 

 two long stands, filled with dahlias, asters, roses (Sz-c, and in front of 

 these were placed the vegetables. The platform, at the head of the hall, 

 was decorated with fine collections of plants, embracing some new and rare 

 kinds. The Bradlee and Society's vases stood conspicuous among them, 

 filled with magnificent bouquets, which added greatly to the " coup 

 d'osil." We have not room to enumerate all the contributors of plants and 

 flowers here, but will merely mention the President , J. A. Lowell, Esq., 

 Hovey & Co., and J. Cadness, as the principal contributors of plants; a 

 full report will be given in another page. 



The fruit, we have already said, was of the greatest interest. The spe- 

 cimens, particularly of pears, were large, fair, and handsome — exceeding 

 far any previous exhibition, in quantity, and very far in quality. First 

 among the exhibitors of pears came Mr. Manning, with more than two hun- 

 dred and Jiflij varieties ; then the President, with upwards of one hundred 

 and fifty ; and Messrs. Hovey & Co., with one hundred and ien kinds ; 

 Messrs. Walker, Lovett, Macondry, and others, from sixty to eighty kinds 

 each ; of apples, Mr. Manning exhibited over one hundred varieties, Mr. 

 French about eighty, and others, smaller numbers. One of the the greatest 

 objects of attraction, in the Hall — probably the greatest, was a basket of 

 Swan's Orange, gathered by us in Rochester, N. Y.,on the 8th of Sept. ; 

 numbering thirty-two pears, all gathered from one small branch, on a young 

 tree, scarcely one of the pears weighing less than eight ounces, and some 

 as much as twelve. It would require more room than we have to spare, to 

 note down all the fine specimens, but a few we ought not to omit ; these 

 were the Seckels of Mrs. Adams and Mr. Allen, both remarkably large ; 

 Beurr6 d'Anjou, two dozen from Messrs. Hovey & Co., very splendid ; also 

 the true Knight's Monarch, Belle Lucrative, from S. Walker; Beurre 

 Bosc, from Capt. Lovett ; Louise Bonne de Jersey, from O. Johnson, Esq., 

 and Capt. Macondry ; Dix, from S. Pond ; D'Aremberg, from the President ; 

 Flemish Beauty, from Mr. Vandine ; Columbia, from Mr. Cabot; and 

 Duchess d'Angouleme, from T. Gordon. Among the apples, the Graven- 

 stein of Mr. Walker, the Porters of Mr. Pierce, and Messrs. Hyde, the Hub- 

 bardston Nonsuch of Mr. Stickney, and the Detroit of Mr. Warren, were 

 very large and beautiful. Among the new pears of great reputation, we 

 noticed Compte deLelieur, Henry Van Mons, Colonna, and Nos. 182, 968, 

 and 982 Van Mons, in the collection of Mr. Manning ; and Triomphe de Jo- 

 doigne, Adele St. Denis, Jersey Gratioli, Bonne desZees, Episcopal Mon- 

 arch, Belle Apres Noel, Beurr6 Benoits, St. Nicholas, and Due de Bour- 

 deaux, in the collection of Hovey & Co. 



