524 MassacJiiiseits Horticultural Society. 



Herbaceous Plants. — For the best display through the season, ihe So- 

 ciety's silver medal, to J. Breck & Co., $5. 

 For the second best, Parker Barnes, $4. 

 For the third best, Messrs. Winship, $2. 

 Annuals. — For the best display through the season, the Society's silver 

 medal, to J. Breck & Co., $5. 

 For the second best, to Parker Barnes, S4. 

 For the third best, to A. Bowditch, $ 3. 

 Shrubby Plants. — For the best display through the season, the first 

 prize to Messrs. Winship, S5. 

 For the second best, to John A. Kenrick, $4. 

 For the third best, to William Kenrick, $3. 

 Rhododendrons. — For the best display of the season, the first prize, to 

 Hovey & Co., $3. 

 The second, not awarded. 

 Exhibited. — Fruit: From F. Tudor, Esq., from his garden at Nahant, 

 pears — Louise Bonne of Jersey, superior; Beurre Goubault, very fine; 

 Duchesse d'Angouleme, and Chaumontelle, superior ; Brown Beurr6, fair 

 and very fine. The specimens of the Louise Bonne, twelve in number, 

 were the most splendid we ever saw, being enormously large, very fair, 

 and well colored. The following note accompanied the fruit : — 



Louise Bonne of Jersey, of Nahant growth. — This fruit is the largest in 

 the basket, measures a fraction short of 10^ inches, — weight, a fraction 

 less than 13| oz. 



The whole circumference of 10 fruits in this basket is 8 feet 1 J inches, — 

 weight of the same, 7 lbs. 45 oz. They are the ten best fruits of a dwarf 

 tree, producing, in all, 95 fruils, stimulated with rain water, to which is 

 to be attributed the size of the fruit in a dry summer. All the other fruits 

 were large, and many of them injured by being blown off by the storm of 

 the 7th October. 



From A. W. Haven, Flemish Beauty pears, very large. From Joseph 

 Bennet, Colmar d'Aremberg pears. From O. Johnson, White Doyenne 

 and Urbaniste pears; quinces, superior; apples. From J. F. Allen, Gol- 

 den nectarines; St. Michael figs; Black Hamburgh, very fine. Rose 

 Chasselas, White Frontignan, and Golden Chasselas grapes, very fine. 

 From C. E. Grant, Isabella grapes, G dishes, well colored, well ripened, 

 and sweet, superior. From T. Neediiam, Black Frankendale, Black 

 Hamburgh, White Frontignan, Muscat of Alexandria, and Syrian grapes, 

 all very fine. From F. King, Coe's Golden Drop plums, superior. 



From Hovey & Co., Semiana plums; Diana grapes ; Knight's i\Ionarch 

 very fine, Excellcntissima, Belle Epine Dumas, Hull, Forelle, Due de 

 Bordeaux pears. The Diana grapes were tasted by the commiitee, who 

 make the following remark: — "Bears abundantly, and certain to ripen. 

 This grape is, in the opinion of the commiitee, the best suited to out-door 

 culture in New England of any they have tested." From J. Bliss, Bald- 

 win, Ribston Pippin apples, and three other sorts, — one of them a very 

 large, handsome apple, of fine quality. From J. Washburn, Pear quinces ; 



