FIRST PRIZE LIST. 493 



To the person who shall offer to the Society, at their annual meeting 

 in September, the best treatise, in manuscript, on any one or 

 more of the insects that attack fruit trees, with the best method 

 of preventing or destroying the same, a premium of . . $5 00 



To the person who shall offer to the Society, at their annual meeting 

 in September, the best treatise in manuscript, on any one or more 

 of the diseases to which fruit trees are liable, with the best method 

 of preventing the same, a premium of . ; .. . . . . 500 



FOURTH. NEW VARIETIES. 



To the person who shall introduce and propagate the greatest 

 number of the new and most approved varieties of fruit trees, a 

 premium of .'.'.... . $10 00 



The times and places for exhibiting the various kinds of fruit to be fixed 

 by the Committee, and published. 



Discretionary premiums to be awarded on fruits presented by members or 

 others, when rare and of excellent sorts. 



All which is respectfully submitted, by order of the Committee. 



E. PHINNEY, Chairman. 

 APRIL 28, 1829. 



No. II. 



ON KITCHEN GARDENS. 



The Standing Committee of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society on the Culture and Products of the Kitchen Garden, con- 

 sisting of Jacob Tidd, Samuel Ward, Aaron D. Williams, and John 

 B. Russell, have attended to that duty, and submit the following 

 list of premiums : 



Asparagus, fifty in a bunch, earliest and best in open ground . . $2 00 



Cucumbers, best pair, on or before the 4th of July, in open ground . 2 00 



Cabbages, early, the best four heads .200 



Carrots, twelve roots, the earliest and best 2 00 



Beets, twelve roots of the earliest and best, by the 4th of July . 2 00 



Potatoes, early, one peck, the best, by the 4th of July . . 2 00 

 Potatoes, for winter, not less than twenty bushels, having regard to 



their productiveness as well as quality 400 



Celery, six plants, earliest and best ->.:.:* . . . . 400 



Beans, Large Lima, two quarts, shelled * .*.-'; -'-4^ ""*' r * .V 2 00 



Beans, the earliest and best, two quarts . , .; ....->" -v"* : ' V>;.J >' 1 00 



Beans, the earliest and best, dwarf shell, two quarts . .*'*-;"> - -.* 1 00 



Lettuce, four heads, the finest and heaviest of the season . .. 1 00 



Cauliflowers, four heads, finest and heaviest of the season . - ;: 1 00 



Broccoli, four heads, finest and heaviest of the season .. ; . . 2 00 



Squashes, Winter Crookneck, the largest and best pair . . . 1 00 



Peas, one peck, the earliest and best, by the first Monday of June . 1 00 



