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potatoes; to Mr. MacLean, for the Jireatest varietj' of fine vegetables; 

 to Mr. A. G. Rose, for the introduction of new varieties. 



Premiums for vegetables being granted exclusively to those cultivated 

 for sale — your committee cannot do justice to the amateur gardeners 

 whose diligence, care and skill in horticulture merit the highest com- 

 mendation and encourajjement from the Society; Mr. William Mazyck, 

 Mr. John Hume, Mr. Thomas H. Deas, Mrs. F. Rutledge, Mr. Joseph 

 A. Winthrop, and many others, have vegetable gardens which would 

 do credit to any country whatever. Indeed, the improvements in farm- 

 ing and gardening since the estabishment of this Societ}', have been un- 

 questionably very great. Whether this has in any measure been pro- 

 moted by the patronage of the Society, or by an improving taste for 

 horticulture and botany, coincident, in point of time, with this estab- 

 lishment, your conmiittee felicitate the Society on the success which has 

 attended their endeavors to promote these interesting pursuits, and on 

 the bright prospects which present themselves of further improvements, 

 more extensively diffused and more generally cultivated b}' all equally 

 emulous for distinction. 



Art. III. Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, Oct. 28fA, 1837. — Exhibited. From R. Manning, Pope's 

 Quaker, Cumberland, Styrian, and Bergamotte d'Automme pears; also, 

 Alpha (received from the London Horticultural Society,) and Endicott 

 pears, (a native,) and a seedling raised by J. S. Cabot, Esq., of Salem; 

 also, several specimens of apples. From S. Pond, beurre Diel pears: 

 presented by Mr. Pond, from the garden of Mr. Douglas of Cambridge- 

 port, srolden beurre pears. From Mr. Vose, the president of the Soci- 

 ety, Wilkinson pears. From S. Walker, autumn Bergamot pears. 

 From Mr. Oliver, Wilkinson pears. From J. D. Bradley, Brattleboro', 

 Vt., a variety, supposed the old St. Michael of Doyenne blanc. From 

 Dr. Joel Burnett, Southboro', Burnett pears, specimens of which have 

 been forwarded to the Society three or four years in succession; these 

 specimens were fine. From Samuel Phipps, Dorchester, apples, called 

 the Philadelphia pippins, of very large size, but not ripe. From Wm. 

 Kenrick, a variety of apples, received from E. Davis, of Webster, 

 Mass., Rev. H. Ramsdell, West Thompson, Connecticut, and Dr. J, 

 Burnett, and Peter Fay, Southboro'. Rev. Mr. Ramsdell sent several 

 specimens last season; his collection is quite extensive, and some of 

 these were very excellent: the following are the names of the kinds 

 sent by him: — Sweet-winter, Tift sweeting and white sweet, Pomme 

 water, American apple, Winter Chandler, (a superior fruit, as we 

 stated last fall,) winter greening, Nichols's sweet, Ramsdell's red sweet, 

 Enfield pearmain and red pumpkin sweet, the latter an enormous 

 bearer. Dr. Burnett sent fine specimens of the Lyscom apple, one of 

 the best of apples. Yellow gilliflowers, by Mr. Davis, and Mill ajjples, 

 from Mr. Fay. 



Nov. 4th. — Exhibited. From Mr. Vose, specimens of the Duchess 

 d'Angouleme pears. From S. Downer, specimens of the beurre Diel, 

 Duchess d'Angouleme, Urbaniste, Dix, Cattilac, Bleeker's Meadow 

 and Messire Jean pears; also, Ponnne do Niego apples. From E. M. 

 Richards, Warden pears. From G. Brown, Medfield, sweet apples. 



