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Wyman cabbage were shown, one, on the 29th of June, 

 weighing twenty-eight pounds. James Carter & Co. of 

 London presented four varieties of Italian onions, the 

 bulbs weighing upwards of two pounds each. James 

 Comley exhibited very fine specimens of three new sorts 

 of lettuce, All the Year Round, Monitor', and Little 

 Pixie. The prospective prize for the best seedling 

 early potato, after a public trial of three years, was 

 awarded to Albert Bresee, for the Early Rose. 



The committee stated that great improvement had 

 been made within the past few years in the several 

 varieties of root crops, more especially the beet, and 

 that finer or more uniform specimens of this vegetable 

 had never been seen than were shown at this exhibi- 

 tion. Besides the Egyptian, mentioned in a former 

 report, the Dewing's Improved and the Hatch were 

 named as varieties to which these remarks would apply. 

 The annual exhibition was thought, taking into account 

 the quantity, variety, and especially the quality, of the 

 specimens offered, to surpass any previous show. The 

 cauliflowers, celery, egg plants, and melons were par- 

 ticularly fine. 



The meetings for discussion were resumed in 1872, 

 the By-Laws having in the mean time beenso amended 

 as to provide for a Standing Committee on Publication 

 and Discussion, which was charged with the control 

 of all discussions, lectures, essays, etc. The first meet- 

 ing for the season, of this character, was on the evening 

 of February 7, when Marshall P. Wilder delivered a 

 lecture on Hybridization and the Production of New 

 Varieties from Seed, which was published in full in 

 the Transactions of the Society. Meetings were held 

 in March, when essays were read by John B. Moore 



