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the best quality. The grapes were very fine, and in 

 great variety. Among the largest contributors were 

 President Wilder, who showed two hundred varieties of 

 pears ; Robert Manning, who sent two hundred and 

 sixty varieties of pears, and one hundred and eighteen 

 of apples ; and John Fisk Allen, who showed thirty- 

 three varieties of foreign grapes. Contributions of fruit 

 were received from growers in Connecticut, New York, 

 New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. Among 

 these were the first specimens exhibited before the 

 Society of the Howell pear, which were brought by S. 

 D. Pardee of New Haven from the original tree, owned 

 by John English. 



There was a great collection of pot plants from the 

 conservatories and greenhouses of amateurs and nursery- 

 men ; but for want of room they were not exhibited to 

 the best advantage. Among them were some large and 

 splendid plants of camellias, oranges, acacias, etc., from 

 Marshall P. Wilder, John A. Lowell, Hovey & Co., 

 George C. Crowninshield, J. L. L. F. Warren, and others. 

 The stands for cut flowers were well filled with choice 

 dahlias, asters, roses, etc. 



The display of vegetables was better than at any 

 former exhibition. A collection of cabbages, beans, 

 beets, onions, carrots, and kale, exhibited by J. E. Tesche- 

 macher, to show the action of guano, and a collec- 

 tion from S. W. Cole of nearly one hundred varieties of 

 potatoes, of which thirty-seven were his own seedlings, 

 were the most interesting contributions. 



The number of specimens and varieties of fruits, 

 flowers, and vegetables, presented for exhibition, was 

 estimated as follows : pears, one thousand three hundred 

 dishes, in three hundred and fifty varieties ; apples, six 



