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on July 12th, the Bigarreau Noir Tardif, of a very dark color, sweet and 

 good, and the Downton, a late red cherry of superior quality. 



On July 12th, Messrs. Hovey & Co. exhibited a seedling cherry that 

 was a very large fruit, very dark in color, firm in flesh and very fine in 

 quality; and the Messrs. Hyde, a seedling of moderate size, dark colored, 

 that seemed to be of the Mazard family. On the previous exhibition, 

 July 5th, there was a seedling from Seth Davis, of West Newbury, stated 

 to be remarkable for its bearing properties. It was a mottled flesh-colored 

 cherry of not more than common quality. On August 2d, the Committee 

 had an opportunity of tasting another seedling cherry from Messrs. Hovey 

 & Co. that was of the largest size, firm flesh, amber color, mottled with a 

 red cheek, sweet, high flavored and very fine. 



For much of the interest attending their weekly exhibitions, especially 

 in the earlier part of the season, the Society is under obligations to Messrs. 

 J. F. Allen, Hovey & Co., W. C. Strong, and J. Breck & Son, for the ex- 

 hibition by these gentlemen of grapes grown under glass, in large quanti- 

 ties and great variety ; other exhibitors have occasionally placed upon its 

 tables specimens of this fruit of very superior quality ; among those to 

 whom the Society is so indebted may be named J. P. Cushing, Esq., Dr. 

 Nathan Durfee, Mrs. Durfee, M. H. Simpson, Esq., S. Bigelow, A. Bow- 

 ditch, James Nugent, Cheever Newhall, A. W. Stetson and others. 



On August 9th, specimens of several varieties of grapes were received 

 from Roswell L. Colt, Esq., of Patterson, N. J.; they were forwarded to 

 the Society by Mr. Colt, for the purpose, among others, of furnishing spe- 

 cimens of his mode of culture, having been raised on " Hoare's Plan," in a 

 house facing the east, with the roots of the vines inside the house, but to 

 which Mr. C. last year added an outside border with openings to it from the 

 inside. The house in which these grapes were raised is stated to be a very 

 cold house, and that there had been fire in it but nine times. Mr. C. 

 thinks his " finest flavored grapes are raised under glass without fire heat." 

 These grapes had been so injured by the carriage that no very correct esti- 

 mate Could be formed of their quality ; so far as an opinion could be formed 

 they appeared to have been well ripened and of good flavor. As a mark 

 of his interest in the Society this attention and courtesy is highly appre- 

 ciated by the Committee. 



On July 5th, Mr. Allen, who, on January 4th, had placed on the tables of 

 the Society grapes cut from the vines on the morning of that day, and on 

 April 2Crh those of the new crop, exhibited a new dark colored grape, with 

 small berries, called Partridge Foot, — it was sweet but probably not worthy 

 of cultivation ; and at a subsequent period the Raisin de Calabre, a rather 

 small white grape of a very rich sweet Muscat flavor, that he thinks may be 

 Josling's St. Albans ; also a grape called Caillaba, with small oval transpar- 

 ent berries, sweet but without much flavor. 



The grape exhibited by Mr. Allen, under the name of Lachmere's Seed- 

 ling, and by Mr. Strong under that of Blanche Vyron, proves to be Mc- 

 ready's early white, a grape probably well suited to out-door culture. 



Mr. Strong has the past season exhibited grapes called the Black Muscat 



