AWARD OF PREMIUMS, 1830. 495 



1830. Of the times when, and the places where, due notice will 

 be given by the committee. 



In the selection of objects for premiums, your committee have 

 had chiefly in view the introduction into our gardens of some of 

 those indigenous shrubs whose rare beauty (in their opinion) de- 

 serves, and which they confidently hope will obtain, the notice of 

 the Society. They have no doubt that our own county is rich in 

 ornamental trees and shrubs, which, if more generally known and 

 cultivated, would be as generally admired and appreciated; and 

 they cannot but regret, that, while so much labor and care have been 

 bestowed upon exotics inferior in beauty, our native plants have 

 literally been left "to waste their fragrance on the desert air." 

 Feeling confident that many if not all the indigenous shrubs 

 abounding in our vicinity may be naturalized to an upland soil, 

 and even improved by cultivation, they have been induced to offer 

 premiums for such as they think will well repay the labor of culti- 

 vation. All which is respectfully submitted. By order of the 

 committee. 



EGBERT L. EMMONS, Chairman. 

 JUNE 20, 1829. 



NOTE. None but the members of the Society are entitled to 

 the premiums offered in the reports of the three committees. 



The Committees No. 1 and 2 meet at the Society's hall, No. 52 

 North Market Street, every Saturday, generally, for the examina- 

 tion of any articles that may be left for premium or exhibition. 



H. Page 227. 

 PREMIUMS AWARDED I1ST 1830. 



At a meeting of the Committee of the Massachusetts Horticul- 

 tural Society on Fruits, on Saturday, the 4th of December, 1830, 

 the following premiums were awarded : 



For the best Apples, to John Prince of Roxbtiry aiiirrrj&Jfl $&>' . $4 00 

 For the best summer Pears (Andrews), to Rufus F. Phipps of 



Charlestown . >o .*r:r:;'wv JVfc^r^dnZ rrj?0 te&rt&Ziiz'tetoir'i s 4 00 



For the best autumn Pears (Bartlett), to Enoch Bartlett of Roxbury, 4 00 

 For the best native Pears (Heathcot), to Roderick Toohey, gardener 



to Mrs. Gore of Waltham ... 4 00 



