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plums from a tree which had produced fifty dollars' 

 worth per annum for three years. Foreign grapes were 

 then much cultivated in the open air, and fine speci- 

 mens of Black Hamburg, Black Cape, White Chasse- 

 las, Red Chasselas, Horatio (Spanish), Barcelona, Oval 

 Malaga, White Muscat, Esperione, Black Corinth, and 

 White Corinth, were shown by Zebedee Cook, jun., 

 David Haggerston, and others. Of native grapes, the 

 Catawba was shown by John Adlum of Georgetown, 

 D.C., who introduced it, and by several cultivators in the 

 vicinity of Boston. The Williams, Benoni, Porter, and 

 Hubbardston Nonsuch 1 apples (natives), and the Graven- 

 stein and Ribston Pippin (foreign), made their appear- 

 ance. October 9, John Prince sent fifty-five varieties 

 produced on his farm, and, a week later, E. Weston, jun., 

 of Duxbury, sent apples from a seedling tree nearly a 

 hundred years old, which had borne in a single year sev- 

 enty-six bushels of fruit. At the same time Samuel G. 

 Perkins sent a specimen of the Duchesse d'Angouleme 

 pear, probably the first produced in America. It was the 

 only one that grew on the tree, and measured eleven and 

 three tenths inches. When tasted, " it was pronounced 

 superior to the St. Michael, it being as abundant in juice, 

 and of a much richer and higher flavor," a judgment 

 which leads to the suspicion that the connoisseurs of 

 that day, quite as much as of our time, were liable to 

 prepossession by a large and handsome fruit. Trees of 

 this variety one year from the bud sold readily the next 

 spring at five dollars each. The Beurre d'Aremberg 

 and Golden Beurre of Bilboa (foreign), and the An- 



1 The Hubbardston Nonsuch sprung from seed about 1780, and was 

 introduced to notice about 1828 or 1830. The original tree was standing in 

 1871, in the town from which it took its name. 



