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Carter (of the Botanic Garden), and Messrs. Kenrick, 

 were splendid beyond description." The exhibitions 

 were evidently appreciated by the community ; for, at 

 that of October 10, the hall was so crowded with visitors, 

 that the Society was obliged to adjourn its meeting with- 

 out transacting any business. On the 3d of October 

 Samuel G. Perkins exhibited Duchesse d'Angouleme 

 pears, one of which weighed nineteen ounces. The Com- 

 mittee on Fruits named, as most worthy of cultivation, 

 among the newer pears which had been exhibited, the 

 Urbaniste, Surpasse Virgalieu, Bergamot Sylvange, 

 Downton, Dix, and Wilkinson. The exhibitions of late 

 fruits had been gradually increasing, and as instances, 

 on the 5th of December more than twenty varieties 

 of apples, and five of pears, including the Columbia 

 Virgalieu from Bloodgood & Co. of Flushing, N.Y., 

 were shown, and on the 13th of February, 1836, 

 twenty-five dishes of apples of nearly as many varieties, 

 and three dishes of pears. 



On the 24th of October, 1835, some special awards 

 were voted to several gentlemen who had been pre-em- 

 inent in forwarding the objects of the Society. They 

 were to Robert Manning, for his meritorious exertions 

 in promoting the cause of pomological science, and for 

 obtaining valuable new varieties of fruits from Europe ; 

 to William Kenrick, for his successful efforts in procur- 

 ing scions of new fruits from Europe, and for his valua- 

 ble treatise on fruit trees ; to Marshall P. Wilder, for 

 beautiful exhibitions of camellias, roses, and dahlias, 

 embracing many new varieties, imported by him from 

 Europe ; to Samuel Walker, for splendid exhibitions of 

 new varieties of tulips, pinks, and anemones, imported 

 by him from Europe, and for his successful efforts in 



