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the sides interwoven with mosses and lichens, and lined with arbor-vitse 

 within. It was profusely ornamented with dahhas, asters, globe amaranth, 

 and gnaphalium. Circumference of the base sixteen feet, of the temple, 

 thirteen and one half feet. 



The Ilall was beautifully and tastefully decorated with evergreen trees 

 and shrubs procured from our native woods. Conspicuous among these 

 were the hemlock, the white cedar, the two pines, the single spruce, 

 the laurel, the black alder, and the inkberry, The pillars were also 

 wreathed and festooned with the common ground pine, Lycopodium com- 

 planatum. Another and more beautiful species of the ground pine, L. den- 

 droideum, or tree weed, was also freely used in the decorations. In the 

 preparation and arrangement of these, the committee was kindly assisted 

 by the skill and taste of some gentlemen not of their own number. Our 

 acknowledgments are more especially due to Josiah S. Bonney, and John 

 r. Akin, in these particulars. 



Fruit : The committee, in presenting their report, feel highly gratified, 

 in being able to state, that the exhibition of fruits on the occasion, far ex- 

 ceeded their most sanguine expectation. And this may be said, not only 

 with reference to the quality of the specimens exhibited, but also with re- 

 gard to the quantity. Although the number of varieties was small, when 

 compared with those upon the tables of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society, at their recent annual exhibition, still, your committee believe, 

 that, in point of size, beauty, fine appearance, «&c., the specimens upon our 

 tables were in no respect inferior to theirs. Many of the specimens of 

 pears — which fruit most decidedly took the lead — were indeed very beauti- 

 ful, extremely large and handsome, and bore ample evidence of successful 

 culture. The grapes, grown under glass, were also very fine, and elicited 

 much admiration. The contributions of grapes, peaches, &-c., from Nahum 

 Stetson, Esq., of Bridgevvater, and of fifty varieties of pears from R. Man- 

 ning, Esq., of Salem, were very fine, especially the former, and attracted 

 very general attention. The committee feel very gratet'ul to these gentle- 

 men, for their kindness in furnishing us with their contributions. 



The following is a list of the fruits exhibited, viz : — 



From James Arnold, President of the Society, by Wellwood Young. 

 Grapes. Victoria, very fine, berries very large, largest exhibited ; Black 

 Hamburgh, very handsome; Syrian; Horatio; Muscat of Alexandria, 

 cluster, very large; White Sweetwater, cluster large and handsome. 

 Pears. Napoleon; Seckel, very fine; Williams's Bon Chretien; Du- 

 chesse d'Angouleme, large : Passe Colmar : Louise Bonne of Jersey : Beurre 

 Ranee ; St Germain ; and a pear for a name, which the committee pro- 

 nounce the Passe Colmar. Pmches. Belle de Vitry, Morris's White, La- 

 fayette, and a seedling of medium size. Apples. Wing Sweeting, Ror- 

 bury Russet, R. I. Greening, and Seek-no-Furiher. Melons. Green Per- 

 sian. 



From John Howland. Pears. Beurr6 Bosc, large and very handsome ; 

 Brown Beurr6 ; Dix ; Beurr6 d'Aremberg ; Seckel, large ; W^inter Nelis ; 

 St. Germain, fair specimens; Ananas; White Doyenne; Passe Colmar ; 

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