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But few vegetables were exhibited, and these were not 

 reported separately, but with the fruits. A contribution 

 worthy of notice was the Autumnal Marrow squash 

 from John M. Ives, who had just introduced it. The 

 Purple and White Egg Plants, which had not appeared 

 in any previous reports, were also exhibited. Water- 

 melons, one weighing forty pounds, and other melons 

 (all melons being then classed as fruits), Valparaiso 

 squashes, Orange gourds, English and Lima beans, and 

 one or two varieties of cabbages, were all the other 

 vegetables shown. 



The address by John C. Gray was on the induce- 

 ments to the pursuit of horticulture, especially in this 

 country, and on the desire to create and diffuse a 

 taste for horticulture, which led to the foundation of 

 the Society. It was delivered in the exhibition hall. 

 The usual dinner was omitted. The exhibition was 

 successful financially, the sale of tickets of admission 

 having produced $775, and the sale of fruits and flow- 

 ers about $125, leaving an excess of receipts over expen- 

 ditures of $420.76. The shows of this year do not 

 appear to have been injured as much as might have 

 been supposed by the agitation in regard to the sepa- 

 ration of Mount Auburn from the Society. 



No exhibition worthy of special notice was made in 

 1835 until the 7th of March, when Thomas Mason of 

 the Charlestown Vineyard presented, besides other 

 greenhouse plants, specimens of Azalea coccinea and 

 A. Phcenicea, the first exhibition of this flower, of 

 which special shows are now held. March 28 a bou- 

 quet from the conservatory of John P. Gushing " was 

 exhibited that surpassed every thing of the kind that 

 had yet been produced near Boston. It was a combina- 



