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plants ; to receive, arrange, and label fruits ; and to 

 give notice of the exhibition. 



The exhibition was held in Faneuil Hall on the 17th, 

 18th, and 19th of September, and, according to the 

 report of the committee, 



" The display surpassed the most sanguine anticipations of the 

 friends of the Society and the amateurs of that rural improve- 

 ment in which nature and art combine to produce the fairest ob- 

 jects which can decorate the splendid abodes of affluence or the 

 humble retreats of rural felicity. It was a subject of delightful 

 contemplation to behold the ' Cradle of Liberty ' converted, as it 

 were by enchantment, into the Temple of Flora and the Palace 

 of Pomona." 



The ceiling and galleries of the hall were festooned 

 with rich and tasteful wreaths of flowers and evergreen. 

 The exhibition of fruits included choice specimens of 

 all the best varieties then known. There were two 

 clusters of Nice grapes from Jacob Tidd, weighing six 

 and a half and five pounds ; from the Messrs. Hovey a 

 Black Hamburgh vine in a pot, only eighteen months 

 from the cutting, bearing twenty clusters weighing 

 nearly half a pound each, and from Ebenezer Breed, 

 Brown Beurre and Gansel's Bergamot pear trees in pots, 

 bearing fine fruit. Robert Manning sent a collection 

 of pears, of forty-four varieties, embracing many of the 

 new kinds then recently introduced into the country, 

 the beginning of those great collections of pears which 

 were both a consequence and a cause of the high esti- 

 mation in which this fruit has been held in Massachu- 

 setts. A curious apple, produced without blossoms, and 

 having neither core nor seeds, was exhibited. 



The Committee to name and label the Plants and 

 Flowers reported that, 



