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tie improvement has been effected ; and it is from the fact, that a variety so 

 decidedly remarkable has been added to the list, that your Committee deem 

 it just and proper, that some token of reward should be given to encourage 

 others to go on in their endeavors to improve this as well as every other 

 class of culinary vegetables. 



In regard to the origin of the Autumnal Marrow, your Committee do not 

 now intend to enlarge ; it is sufficient for them to know that it was first intro- 

 duced to this neighborhood by Mr. J. M. Ives, of Salem, and is so peculiar 

 to our vicinity, that it is called the " Boston Marrow." To no other source 

 can your Committee trace it. 



They would therefore report that a piece of plate, with an appropriate 

 inscription, or a medal of the value of fifty dollars, be presented to Mr. 

 Ives, for the introduction of the marrow squash. 



C. M. HOVET, > ^ ... 



Boston, April 3, 1852. Henry Bradlee, ^ 



The same Committees were appointed to carry the above votes into effect. 



The President read a communication from M. Vattemare, which was 

 referred to the Corresponding Committee. 



Adjourned four weeks, to May 1. 



Exhibited. Flowers : From Ilovey & Co., specimens of their seedling 

 Verbena America, which the Committee state have " the appearance of a 

 phlox," from the large size of the trusses, and their erect habit. From A. 

 Bowditch, Amie Vibert roses. 



Fruit : From T. Page, fine Roxbury Russet apples. From E. Wight, 

 Danvers Winter Sweet, Roxbury Russet and Nonsuch apples. From G. 

 W. Haven, Ledge Sweet apples, in fine order, and the Committee consider 

 it the, best long keeping sweet apple ever presented to the Society. 



April 17. — Exhibited. Fruits : From H. Vandine, Long Rose Water 

 pears. From A. Bowditch, Boston Pine strawberries. 



April 24. — Exhibited. Fruits : From J. Perham, Lyndeborough, N. H., 

 Seedling sweet apple, of medium size, yellow, with red streaks, — a valuable 

 late keeping sweet apple. From Hon. I. Davis, Worcester, a fine melon, 

 weishinff 12 ounces. 



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fruit department. 



Rarely have we known a more unfavorable April. Vegetation is now 

 but little more advanced than at the first of the month. Two snow storms 

 and an unusual number of cold rainy days, have been the prevailing 

 characteristics of the month. The quantity of rain which fell was immense, 

 flooding all low lands, and even completely saturating all but the ver\- 



