460 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



The grapes were finer tlian ever. The best, both as to size and color, 

 came from the garden of G. R. Russell, Esq., of West Roxbury ; Mr. 

 Needham's, Cannon Hall Muscats were very fine, and better ripened than 

 last year ; Mr. Donald sent some excellent specimens, but they came too 

 late for competition ; Mr. Stetson's were large and fine ; Mr. Allen had a 

 great collection of fine kinds, and in far better condition than he ever exhi- 

 bited before ; Messrs. Hovey & Co, also contributed twenty-five varieties, 

 including the Cannon Hall, Moranet, and other new ones; Mr. Arnold, of 

 New Bedford, as usual, sent some large and finely colored clusters. 



Of peaches, there was not a large display. The best came from N. Stet- 

 son, Esq., who sent Crawford's Early, and Stetson's Seedling; and J. 

 ilill furnished some beautiful Lemon Rareripes, as he called them; belter 

 known as Crawford's Late. Three large baskets of assorted fruit orna- 

 mented the centre of the tables, and were greatly admired. These were 

 from Mr. O. Johnson, Hovey & Co., and A. Bowditch. 



The vegetables were so numerous and good, that we know not where to 

 begin to enumerate, but must refer to the report. 



[After writing out our report thus far, we have found it impossible to in- 

 clude the Report of the Exhibition and the Festival in this Number, as 

 they would, entire, make more ih2.n fifty pages ; and, owing to the lateness 

 of the month, we find it almost impossible to get the former fully corrected in 

 time to appear this month ; we therefore annex an account of the Festival — 

 and defer the Report of the Exhibition, to our next.] 



HORTICULTURAL FESTIVAL. 



The third triennial Festival of the Society was celebrated at the close of 

 the Exhibition on Friday evening, the 2od of September, at Faneuil Hall. 

 The same decorations which were made for the exhibition served for the 

 Festival. The tables of fruit were removed, and, in their place, were 

 spread fourteen tables, to which the numerous assemblage of ladies and 

 gentlemen sat down to partake of the bountiful supply spread before them, 

 and to enjoy the intellectual feast which would fill up the evening. 



At 5 o'clock, the company, to the number o^ five hundred, began to assem- 

 ble ; in half an hour, they were arranged into divisions by the chief marshal, 

 H. W. Button, Esq., assisted by liis aids, and, with stirring music from 

 the band, they proceeded to the Hall, where all were comfortably seated. 



Among the invited guests were the Hon. R. C. Winthrop, Speaker of 

 the House of Representatives in Congress, Hon. Josiah Quincy, Jr., mayor, 

 Ex-Governor Seward, of New York, Ex-President Quincy, Gen. Dear- 

 born, first President of the Society, Judge Parker, Royal Professor in Law 

 School, Harvard University, J. S. Skinner, Philadelphia, A. J. Downing, 

 New York, Morton McMichael, Esq., Chairman of Delegation from Penn- 

 sylvania Society, Hon. James Arnold, President of New Bedford Horti- 

 cultural Society, Dr. Thompson, of Delaware Society, and the Delegates 

 of these and other associations, and invited guests. 



A blessing having been invoked by Rev. William M. Rogers, the assem- 



