518 Domestic Notices. 



Seek-No-Further, Siberian Crab, and two varieties not named ; iwenty- 

 five varieties of plums, viz. : Coe's Golden Drop, Coe's Late Red, Yellow 

 Egg, Red Magnum Bonum, White Perdrigon, Virgin, Peters's Large Yel- 

 low, Prune d'Agen, White Magnum Bonum, Lombard, or Bleeker's Red, 

 Long Scarlet, Catherine plum, American Wheat plum, Bleeker's Gage, 

 Schuyler's Gage, Washington Yellow Gage, Blue Gage, Nectarine, Reine 

 Claude, Imperial Gage, Holland plum, two English varieties, labels lost, 

 and one seedling from the Lombard, resembling that variety ; Golden Chas- 

 selas, Bland's Virginia and Isabella grapes ; Red Roman nectarines; six 

 varieties of peaches, viz. : Early Anne, Early Tillotson, Emperor of Rus- 

 sia, and three seedlings ; Black Spanish and Valparaiso watermelons, and 

 five varieties of muskmelons, viz. : Beechwood, Sweet Ispahan, Christiana, 

 Green Citron, and Yellow Early canteloup. By John Townsend, of Al- 

 bany, five varieties of apples not named. 

 Premiums. — The Committee have awarded the premiums as follows : — 

 Apples. — For the best exhibition, to Dr. Herman Wendell, of Albany, 83. 

 For the second best exhibition, to Henry Vail, of Ida Farm, Troy, $2. 

 Pears. — For the best exhibition, to Dr. Herman Wendell, $3. 



For the second best exhibition, to James Wilson, of Albtny, $2. 

 Plums. — For the best exhibition, to Isaac Denniston, of Albany, $3 



For the second best exhibition, to Dr. Herman Wendell, $2. 

 Peaches. — For the best exhibition, to Stephen E. Warren, of Troy, $3. 

 For the second best exhibition, to John Keys Paige, of Grapland, 

 Albany, $2. 

 Grapes. — For the best exhibition of native grapes, to Henry Vail, $3. 

 For best specimen and greatest variety of foreign grapes, to John K. 

 Paige, of Albany, $3. 

 Nectarines. — For the best exhibition, to Stephen E. Warren, $3. 

 Watermelons. — For the best specimens, to V. P. Douw, ol Greenbush, $ 2. 

 For the second best specimens, to Joel Rathbone, of Kenwood, Al- 

 bany, $ 1. 

 Muskmelons. — For the best specimens, to Dr. Herman Wendell, $2. 



For the second best specimens, to V. P. Douw, $ I. 

 The Committee beg leave to notice favorably, and as the best specimens 

 of the particular varieties named, some Coe's Golden Drop and Nectarine 

 plums exhibited by Mr. Amos Briggs, of Schaghticoke ; and some very 

 large and beautiful Bergen Yellow peaches exhibited by E. P. Prentice, of 

 Mount Hope, Albany County ; also a few beautiful specimens of a|)ples, 

 peaches, plums, and a very beautiful new seedlmg pear called the ISterling 

 pear, exhibited by Messrs. Wilson, Thorburn & Teller, from their nur- 

 sery. — V. P. Douw, Chairman. 



Floral Designs, Vase Bouquets, <SfC. — The Committee on Floral Designs, 

 Bouquets, &c. report that there were presented for exhibition more than 

 twenty designs, bouquets, &c., nearly all of which were very beauti- 

 ful, and reflected great credit for skill and taste on the part of the exhibi- 

 tor. 



