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ing such abundance of the finest grapes as would have puzzled Caleb, 

 the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, to have borne off 

 from the land of promise without detection. Well, indeed, in this,did the 

 father of the Society hiifhly honor it and himself. 



Tiie Committee consider the Exhi!)ition of fruits to have been ex- 

 tremely creditable to those who raised them, and an earnest of the per- 

 fection to which the District may attain in this branch of horticulture. 



Report of the Committee on Veu:etables. — The Committee on Vegeta- 

 bles report that at the recent exhibition held by this Society on the 21st 

 and 22d of last September, the vegetables, although not so abundant as 

 they had a right to expect, from the numerous members of the Society 

 engaged in their cultivation, yet, in size and quality, were not inferior to 

 any ever before exhibited. The Silesian or sugar beet, of Messrs. 

 Hines and Mr. Lindsay, were particularly fine; the cabbages by Mr. 

 Cammack would do credit to any part of the world. The sweet pota- 

 toes by Colonel Naylor were extraordinary productions; the field pump- 

 kins of Mr. Barnard and Mr. Lindsay were well worthy of notice. The 

 Committee take great pleasure in saying that all the vegetables were of 

 the very best quality, and such as would do great credit to the best gar- 

 dener of our country. The Committee have observed a gradual and 

 progressive improvement in our vegetable market since the formation of 

 this Society; and they have Jio hesitation in saying, they believe the 

 Society has been the principal cause of that improvement. 



The Committee annex hereto a particular list of the contributors and 

 the articles presented, 



Mr. Joshua Peirce: a fine plant of Delaway cabbage, very good Savoy 

 cabbage, three flat Dutch cabbages, one weighing 18 lbs. three heads very 

 good fall lettuce, pickles, ruta baga and stubble turnips, bunch of car- 

 rots, and one fine Q'^g plant. Mr. John A. Smith: turnips, carrots, 

 amber and mangel wurtzel beets, salsify, one Canadian squash, two 

 Connecticut field puni|)kins, one cream-colored pumpkin, one very fine 

 bunch of double leaf frizzled parsely, fine specimens of the Lima beans, 

 very fine okra and fine brocoli, three delicious and fine flavored nut- 

 meg cantaleupes, simlins and vegetable marrow squash, and a bunch of 

 hybrid turnips. 



Mr. J. VV. Weaver: Drumhead Savoy, red and sugar-loaf cabbage, 

 very fine, very good fall radish, fine winter squash, carrots and parsnips. 

 Mr. William Cammack: two beautiful flat Dutch cabbages, each 26 lbs., 

 two bunches of long blood beet. Mr. Henry Naylor: very large 

 and fine sweet potatoes, beans, beets, jiarsnips, and radishes, and one 

 fine flat Dutch sugar cabbage. Mr. Barnard: excellent snowball pota- 

 toes, very fine specimen of the Lima bean, large Connecticut field 

 pumpkins, and bush simlins, ripe for seed, three varieties of the sweet 

 basil. 



Miss Catharine Barnard: beautiful and rare specimen of the sweet 

 basil, from Porto Rico. Mr. George Naylor: three very fine turnip 

 beets, one fine flat Dutch cabi)agc, and snap beans. Mrs. Wheat: fine 

 blood beets, good carrots and parsnips. Mr. Richard Southern: two 

 fine Savoy and red cabbages. Mr. John Ousely: specimen of sweet 

 pepper, and two fine e'^':t^ plants. 



Mr. Pleasants: fine large potatoes, (ash-leaf kidney.) Mrs. Carter: 

 very fine Mercer potatoes. Mrs. Wachter: very good celery and pars- 

 nips. Mrs. Yates, of Alexandria: fine blood beets. Mrs. Seaton : fine 

 turnip-roat cabbage, beets and potatoes. Mr. Suter: specimen of the 

 sweet gourd. Mr. Adam liindsuy: fine sugar or Silesian beet, ])ump- 

 kin and sweet pepper. Mi". John Douglas: good celery, fine silver-skin 

 onions, from seed sown the last Spring. Messrs. C. & M. Hines: eight 

 sugar or Silesian beets, average ten to thirteen pounds. Mr. Samuel 

 Whitall: fine silver-skin and straw-colored onions. 



