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For the best and finest flavored variety, to B. B. Kirtland, for Burr's 

 New Pine — a delicious, hardy, and productive variety, but of compar- 

 ative moderate size, $2. 

 For the second best, with same requirements, to Luther Tucker, for 

 Royal Scarlet, a large and beautiful as well as delicious variety, and 

 but little inferior to the above, S 1. 

 The committee beg leave to remark, that it will be seen by the report 

 of entries given above, that the much lauded Aberdeen Beehive strawberry 

 was exhibited by two gentlemen, one of whom exhibited plants laden with 

 fruit growing in pots, and one fruit from plants of open culture, and as far 

 as they are able to judge by comparison with other varieties, they are dis- 

 posed to think that it will be found to prove a hardy prolific, when grown 

 with a fertilizer and rich variety, but not by any means superior, if equal 

 in these particulars, to many favorite and well known old varieties. They 

 also beg leave to add, that several varieties of Burr's New Seedlings were 

 exhibited by two gentlemen, all of which have proved to be hardy and 

 thrifty growers, and the New Pine, a prolific, large-sized, and delicious, as 

 well as beautiful variety, and also one well suited for marketable purposes, 

 as it is of firm flesh, keeps well, and bears transportation remarkably well. — 

 Herman Wendell, Chairman. 



Floral Designs. — Greenhouse Plants, &c. — The committee reports 

 that there was exhibited by Joel Rathbone, of Kenwood, two beautiful 

 round vase bouquets — not in competition — arranged with good taste, and 

 composed of fuchsias, eupatoreums, gloxinias, pelargoniums, and other 

 choice flowers. 



By Dr. Herman Wendell, one large round bouquet for centre table vase, 

 arranged with good taste, and composed of choice roses, pinks, pansies, 

 spireas, &c., &c., to which the committee awarded the premium of $2 ; 

 one large flat bouquet for mantle vase, tastefully arranged, and composed 

 of about the same varieties of flowers ; a basket bouquet with handle, ex- 

 quisitely arranged, composed of choice rose buds, pansies, forget-me-nots, 

 &c. &c., to which the committee awarded the premium of $2. 



By James Wilson, of Albany, a very beautiful and well arranged large flat 

 bouquet, for mantle vase, composed of choice and rare roses and buds, pelar- 

 goniums, fuchsias, spireas, &c., &c., to which the committee have awarded 

 the premium of $ 2 ; a large round bouquet for mantle vase, composed of 

 about the same varieties of flowers ; a round hand bouquet composed of 

 rare and beautiful flowers, as hoyas, pelargoniums, &c., and arranged 

 with exquisite taste, to which the committee have awarded the premium 

 of $ 1. A flat hand bouquet, arranged with equal good taste, the premium 

 of $1. 



By L. Menand, a very beautiful round hand bouquet, composed of rare 

 flowers, arranged with skill and taste, and several varieties of plants growing 

 in pots, all in beautiful bloom and fine order, evincing Mon's well known 

 skill — and for which the committee awarded the premium for the best six 

 plants of different varieties in pots, $2. 



Flowers, &c., in variety were also contributed by S. E. Warren, J. M. 



