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Roberts, pears. By John Gardner, Jenks's apples. By John Sander- 

 son, seedling plums, liy J. M. Ives, Italian damask and Bolmar's 

 Washington plums. 



Vegetables: By J. C. Lee and J. M. Ives, long green Southgate cu- 

 cumbers. — P. 



[We have been kindly favored with the following interesting account 

 of a meeting of the Society, held at Bradford. We are extremely hap- 

 py in being able to present so full a report of this Society, which we 

 should have been unable to have done but for the attention of our friends. 

 They will please accept our thanks for their kindness. — Cond.] 



Jin exhibition of fruits and flowers, of the latter both native and cul- 

 tivated, was held under the auspices of this Society, at Bradford, in the 

 hall of the Merrimac Academy, on the 21st of September. The exhi- 

 bition was rich and profuse, and manifested an increased zeal in the 

 cause since a previous and similar one in the same place about two years 

 ago. It has ever been the i-,im of the Society to difiuse a laudable and 

 general taste in the community, and promote useful knowledge in the 

 precincts of the county. There was a numerous concourse from the 

 neighboiing towns, and the agriculturists, as well as others interested in 

 the cause, were represented. Fine dahlias were sent from various indi- 

 viduals. From F. Putnam of Salem, uj)wards of fifty sj-.lendid varie- 

 ties. From several ladies of the village, boucjuets of cultivated plants. 

 Contributions of the treasures of the garden, from Newburyport, Ha- 

 verhill, Rowley. Attached to the academy, under the superintendence of 

 its instructer, Mr. S. Morse, is a small and elegant garden for the amuse- 

 ment and gratification of the scholars. Besides culling from its gaily at- 

 tired borders, the young people had gathered the fair and wild flowers 

 of the woods and fields, the gaudy gerardias, the brilliant asters, the 

 inimitable fringed gentian, mosses of various sj)ecies and beauty, the 

 scarlet Cenomyce coccifera, the pendent and mournful U'snea fidrida, 

 the curious Ms.rchkntiit. Specimens of entomolog}', ornithology and 

 conchology from several ladies and gentlemen. 



Of fruits, we observed native grapes, from the culture of Rev. G. 

 Perry, who has hitherto paid much attention to them. Pears, plums, 

 melons, native seedling apples, from individuals in the neighborhood. 

 Varieties and pure sorts of the valuable squashes and pumpkins. In 

 the evening a lecture, on the advantages of the study of nature, was 

 given in the meeting-house, by Dr. Andrew Nichols of Danvers, Presi- 

 dent of the Society, which closed this interesting day. We cannor but 

 wish well to any institution so signally calculated to do good, and affect 

 a salutary influence on the community. — S. 



Wednesday, Sept. ilth. — The regular exhibition of flowers and fruits 

 was held at this date, at their rooms in Salein. The long continued 

 drought was very unfavorable to a full or very vivid display. Many 

 superior dahlias were, however, exhibited from the gardens of Messrs. 

 Putnam, Wheatland, Richardson, &c., and bouquets of flowers from 

 several gardens in the city. We noticed fine specimens of Zinnia vio- 

 lacea var. coccinea, Pe/?mi« intermedia, nycta^riniflora, Potentilla splen- 

 dens,Chryseis crocea, (rladiolus natalensis and floribundus, asters, stocks. 

 The lately introduced and brilliant Jliimulus cardinalis and the pretty 

 little Rudbeckza amplexicaiilis, from the garden of Mr. J. L. Russell, 

 were among other more familiar and older plants. We particularly re- 

 commend the former to the notice of florists. The jilant from which 

 the specimen exhibited w\as taken attained the heiglit of four feet since 

 July last, and has produced a constant decimal suj)ply of large scarlet 

 flowers. It was grown in the open border and watered ])rofusely, giving 

 a striking effect especially among other tall herbaceous plants. The 

 foliage possesses the musky odor so observable in its more humble co- 



