Exhibitions of Horticultural Societies. 469 



squashes, brocoli, carrots, parsnips, cabbages, Brussels sprouts, green 

 corn, early blood beets, Sec. John Harvey — white and purple egg- 

 plants, very fine. A. Harrison — pumpkins and squashes, very large. 

 Elihu Ives, (Five Mile Point) — Calitornia and cocoanut squashes, both 

 very pure; Okra, Lima beans, English pumj)kins, turnip beets, the best 

 exhibited, but only three in number; bush beans, &.c. 



James King — turnips, beets, sweet corn, very superior, (marked for 

 exhibition;) beets, and butter squashes, very fine. Timothy Baldwin 

 • — blood beets, turnip beets, white sugar beets, cabbajres of several va- 

 rieties, mercer and yam potatoes. Benajah Ives, of Cheshire — present- 

 ed very large white flat turnips, sugar beets, and other vesetables. 

 Andrew French — Lima beans, early corn, squashes, Sec. J. M. Pres- 

 cott — Cobbett corn, an excellent early variety, carrots, peppers, cab- 

 bages, beets, and pumpkins. Dr. A. S. Monson — sugar beets, and sev- 

 en very fine cocoanut squashes. 



Timothy Fowlei — in addition to Mercer potatoes, turnips, seed corn, 

 &c. exhibited two squashes grown on a vine four hundred sixty-seven 

 feet long, which produced one hundred forty-two squashes over one foot 

 in length, all from one seed. J. Maltby — presented squashes, peppers, 

 &c. John Bursris — a large and varied show of excellent vegetables — 

 squashes, punqikins, beets, peppers of three kinds, cucumbers, tomatoes, 

 &c. B. Silliman — egg-plants, tomatoes, onions, carrots, squashes, and 

 beets, all of excellent quality. 



John B. Davis, of Derby — a very fine acorn squash, California squash- 

 es, early corn, &c. Deering Dorman — pumpkins, sweet corn, turnips, 

 bush and pole beans, onions, cocoanut, California, crook-neck, Illinois, 

 and butter squashes, all of superior quality. Capt. Beecher — very large 

 turnip beets. Amaziah Hall — Mercer and seedling potatoes, and Dut- 

 ton corn. Col. Punderson — turnips, very fine potatoes, corn, and cab- 

 bages. 



Mr. Smith, of the Alms-house — butter, crookneck, California, cocoa- 

 nut, and other squashes, long blood, turnip aud sugar beets, egg-plants, 

 Okra, ground nuts, pumpkins, &,c. Prof. Shepherd — very fine sweet 

 potatoes. Oliver B. Sherwood, of Derby — bell pumpkins, very large, 

 acorn squashes, and other vegetables. Sydney Hull — kidney potatoes 

 very fine, onions, four squashes. Sec. Wooster Hotchkiss — three ex- 

 cellent squashes. Wm. Mansfield — a good assortment, including yel- 

 low, sngar, and turnip beets, very fine and excellent California and 

 crook-neck squashes, squash and yello^Y sweet peppers, sweet corn, 

 bush and pole beans, celery, white and red, &c. &c. Charles Roberts 

 — three squashes. 



A. Husson — turnip cabbage, a new and singular variety, curled en- 

 dive very fine, French radishes, and drumhead cabbages of extra size. 

 Cajjt. Goodrich — Rohan potatoes. E. S. Hotchkiss — very superior 

 Dutton corn. Z. Richardson — a plate of very fine egg-plants. Charles 

 Robinson — Rohan ])otatoes and yellow tomatoes, very rare. Wm. K. 

 Townsend — mangel wurtzel of great size and vigorous growth. A. Ter- 

 rel — a large pumpkin. E. C. Reed — Lima beans. F. Wohlrabe — 

 very fine turnip beets. 



The four Rohan potatoes presented by Mr. Alfred Harger, and re- 

 markable for their size, were disposed of at the sale for $1 each. Mr. 

 Harger planted two tubers, weighing together thirteen ounces, which 

 produced this season over one hundred sixty pounds. This potato is 

 a new variety recently introduced, and promises to be an important ac- 

 quisition to the farmer. 



Mr Alexander Harrison exhibited some corn, planted July 1st, and 

 ripened in sixty days. The seed was brought from the banks of the 

 Nile by Lieut. Craney, of the U. S^ Navy. Noyes Darling, Esq. pre- 



