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By William Kenrick, Beurre de Bol wilier Pears, &c. 



By John Woodbury, Golden Chasselas Grapes. 



By J. L. L. F. Warren of Brighton, Porter Apples, Sweetwater 

 Grapes or Chasselas from out of door culture. A winter Squash 

 the growth of 1835. 



By E. Breed of Charlestown, a very large Valparaiso Si[uash 

 of the oval form, also another variety very large, flat and ribbed 

 at its sides. 



By Mr McLellan, a green fleshed Persian Muskmelon. Also 

 a Minorca Muskmelon, both from Oak Wood, the Mansion of 

 William Pratt, Esq. of Watertown. 



By Thomas Mason of the Charlestown Vineyard, Sweetwater 

 Grapes, Black Hamburg, and St Peters. 



By S. R. Johnson of Charlestown, Sweetwater Grapes, the 

 produce of out of door culture. Black Hamburg and White Fron- 

 tignac or Muscat. 



During the present unusually cold summer, the trees of the 

 peach and the cherry have not borne their wonted and abundant 

 supplies of fruit ; the blossoms having been destroyed by the last 

 uncommon winter, yet though thus cut off* from our usual sup- 

 plies, we have the less reason to complain, insomuch that but few 

 of the trees which produced these fruits have been destroyed, and 

 compared with many other sections of our country, even in more 

 southern parallels of latitude, the climate of the country around 

 Boston seems indeed highly favored. The climate of the exten- 

 sive plains and valleys bordering on the great northern arteries or 

 rivers of our country, seems in some degree very unfavorable. 

 The cold aqueous vapor whch is so copiously exhaled from these 

 rivers by day, descending by night on the hills, rolls downward 

 by its superior density and gravity, resting and condensing on all 

 the low plains and valleys, thus rendering them doubly exposed 

 to the destructive frosts of winter and of summer. Moreover the 

 winds, which unobstructed, follow almost invariably the longitud- 

 inal course of the valleys of those rivers bring down alternately 

 from higher regions and from high northern latitudes, and from 

 other climes, a degree of cold during winter the most intense and 

 destructive. On the best authority we are assured, that the Pears 

 and particularly the Peach, and the Cherry, have during the last 

 winter suffered partial destruction in the valley of the Connecti- 



