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and peaches from Mr. Fosdick of Charlestown ; several baskets 

 of white Muscadine grapes, intermixed with the Bartiett pear 

 and Malaga grape from Z. Cook, Jr. of Dorchester ; superior 

 black grapes from E. Breed of Charlestown ; fine grapes, 

 peaches, and nectarines from Mrs. T. H. Perkins of Brookline; 

 a basket of beautiful nectarines from E. Sharp of Dorchester; a 

 basket of peaches and nectarines from John Breed of Chelsea ; 

 a basket of choice apples and pears from J. Prince of Roxbury ; 

 two large baskets, comprising six varieties of superior melons 

 from T. Brewer of Roxbury ; Bartiett pears, with peaches and 

 nectarines from Enoch Bartlett of Roxbury ; a basket of 

 beautiful Semiana plums fioin John Derby of Salem ; a basket 

 of Black Hamburg and Black Cape grapes, large peaches, and 

 100 kinds of ornamental plants from Winship's Nursery at 

 Brighton ; a box of choice apples and pears from Gorham 

 Parsons of Brighton ; a box of fine fruits from Rev. G. B. Perry 

 of Bradford ; several varieties of fine pears, currant wine, six 

 years old, and raspberry wine, from S. Dow^ner of Dorchester ; 

 a basket of fine large French pears from John Heard, Jr. of 

 Watertown ; three baskets of Fulton pears, and a fine native 

 autumnal apple from John Abbott of Brunswick, Me. ; fine 

 bunches of Black Hamburg grapes from Richard Sullivan of 

 Brookline ; various fruits from A. D. Williams of Roxbury ; a 

 basket of fine Black Hamburg and Black Cape grapes from D. 

 Haggerston's Charlestown Vineyard ; a large basket of melons 

 from H. A. Breed of Lynn ; Isabella and other grapes from N. 

 Seaver of Roxbury ; several large specimens of the fruit of the 

 egg plant from N. Davenport of Milton ; a box of fine Persian 

 melons from C. Oakley of New- York ; a basket of large peaches 

 from J. Hastings of Cambridge; a basket of rare peaches from 

 R. Manning of Salem ; a basket of the new Fulton pear from 

 T. Greenleaf of Quincy ; a basket of various fruits from Gen- 

 eral Dearborn of Roxbury, and a specimen of Isabella wine, 

 three years old, from Wm. Prince of Long-Island ; a basket of 

 Cushing pears from Benj. Thomas, of Hingham — a delicious fruit, 

 first brought into notice by the exertions of the Society. 



The plants were furr)islied by Mr. Lowell, Mr. Pratt, by the 

 Botanic Garden at Cambridge, by Mr. Aspinwall of Brookline, 

 Mr. Leathe of Cambridge, Mr. Lemist of Roxbury, Mr. Hag- 

 GERSTON of Charlestown, Mr. Prince of Jamaica Plains, Mr. 

 Breed of Lynn, Messrs. Winships of Brighton, and many other 

 gentlemen in this vicinity. Mr. Pratt's splendid collection of 

 Mexican Georginas was unrivaled. The show of fruits and 

 flowers, generally, was probably never surpassed in New-England. 

 It would bei unpleasant to make any invidious comparisons, where 

 all exhibited such satisfactory specimens ; but, in the opinion of 

 many, the grapes of Mr. Cook and Mr. Fosdick, raised in the 



