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the character of pears, and the President, S. Walker, R. Manning, M. P. 

 Wilder and E. Wight, were chosen the Committee. 



E. M. Richards, E. Wight, II. Bradlee, L. Winship and F. Burr, were 

 appointed a Committee to nominate officers for the ensuing year. 



Adjourned two weeks to September 1st. 



Exhibited. Flowers: In great variety, from M. B. Williams, J. Brcck 

 &L Son, P. Barnes, Hovey & Co., E. S. Rand, Jr., W. J. Underwood, Galvin 

 & Hogan, Messrs. Burr, J. Nugent, and several others. 



GRATUITIES AWARDED. 



To E. A. Story, Evers & Bock, and J. M. Trautman $2 each, and to W. 

 E. Carter f 1, for phloxes. 



Fruit : From J. F. Allen, pears and other fruits, and specimens of his 

 new hybrid grape. Extra fine Red Astrachan, Early Harvest, and Bough 

 apples, from M. & F. Burr. Eight varieties of pears from Hovey &- Co., 

 among them, fine specimens of the Boston, Supreme de Quimper, &c. Fine 

 fruit from Capt. Austin, Eben Wight, and others. 



Aug. 25th. — Exhibited. Flowers: Fine displays of asters and dahlias 

 were contributed by various cultivators, and among the latter some new and 

 choice sorts. 



From J. Breck & Son, very fine Intermediate stocks, Pseony asters and 

 Mirabilis ; also, thirty varieties of phlox, including two fine seedlings not 

 before exhibited. From Hovey & Co., fine dahlias, including King of the 

 Yellows, Abbe Van Renynghe, &c. Flowers in variety from William J. 

 Underwood, E. S. Rand, Jr., C. Copeland, Galvin & Hogan, Messrs. Burr, 

 E. A. Story, and others. 



Fruit : From J. F. Allen, Allen's Hybrid grape, peaches, and pears. 

 From Hovey & Co., eleven varieties of pears, including the Boston, Ott, 

 &c. From G. Merriam, Lawton and Improved Blackberry. Pears and 

 other fruits from S. Walker, F. Dana, J. Gordon, G. B. Cutter, A. D. Web- 

 ber and others. 



Vegetables : A fine display from J. B. Moore and B. Harrington. 

 From M. Dodge, gardener to Mrs. Heard, twelve varieties of cabbages and 

 kale. 



Sept. 1. — Exhibited. Flowers : The exhibition of cut flowers was one 

 of the best of the season. Eleven cultivators offered collections of asters 

 for the prizes of the Society — the whole forming altogether the finest dis- 

 play of this flower ever made at the hall. A very large proportion were of 

 the peony-flowered variety — the specimens being of extra size, and remark- 

 ably well developed. 



The display of antirrhinums, though good, would have been much finer, 

 had the time for awarding the prizes been fixed two or three weeks earlier. 



The dahlias exhibited were remarkably fine — the recently introduced 

 varieties decidedly excelling iu size, color, and in all the essentials of a 

 good flower, most of the older and hitherto esteemed sorts. 



Contributions were made by J. F. Allen, Salem, of a leaf and flower of 

 Nelumbium speciosum. This is the Lotus of the Nile and the Sacred bean 



