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The hall was filled with fine specimens ; and bushels of 

 choice flowers were taken away because there was no 

 room to exhibit them. The strawberry show occurred 

 on the same day, and, in consequence of the offer of 

 two silver cups by H. B. Stanwood and C. M. Hovey 

 as prizes for this fruit, a very fine display was made. 

 The cups were awarded for La Constante and Hovey's 

 Seedling. The hall was crowded with visitors to its 

 utmost capacity. 



The annual exhibition was held September 17-20, 

 in the Society's hall, with the addition of a room on the 

 floor below for vegetables. The stands for cut flowers 

 occupied three sides of the hall ; a table for fruits, sepa- 

 rated by a space sufficient for visitors, encircled the 

 hall; and all the room that could be spared in the centre 

 was devoted to plants. The library was set apart for 

 the grapes, which were numerous and excellent. The 

 floral display was unusually fine, and never appeared 

 to better advantage. The single specimens were 

 remarkably excellent, and the display of ferns and lyco- 

 pods was better than ever before. It was thought that 

 the exhibition of fruit would be exceedingly meagre ; 

 but happily this was not the case, though the specimens 

 were not equal to those of the previous year. Pears 

 were the principal fruit ; but the Seckel was the only 

 one which came up to the average of 1860. There 

 were very few apples, and of peaches and plums none 

 except from orchard houses. Specimens of the Salway 

 peach, from H. H. Hunnewell, were greatly admired : 

 they were eleven inches in circumference, and beauti- 

 fully colored. Two new foreign grapes, the Muscat 

 Hamburg* and Golden Hamburg, were exhibited by 

 K. W. Turner, and carried off the prize over very 



