376 J\lassachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Salem, a statrl of fine blooms. Blooms were also shown hy P. 

 Barnes, W. E. Carter, A. Bowditch, J. L. L. F. Warren, and oth- 

 ers, of which we have no list of the names. 



The most beautiful and perfect dahlia exhibited was Widnall's 

 Queen, in the collection of Hovey & Co. The next best flower was 

 the Uxbridge Majrnet, in the collection of the Presiflent. Virgin 

 Queen, in the collection of J. F. Trull, was the best specimen of 

 this variety we have ever seen. There were excellent flowers in the 

 collections of other exhiltitors, but the above are only those particu- 

 larly remarkal)le amonsr the newer kinds of the season. 



Fruits. — From the President of the Society, the following pears, 

 viz: — Andrews, Napoleon, Bonne Louise de Jersey, Beurie Diel, 

 Beurre Bronze, Autumn Superb, Monsieur le Cure, Belmont, Capi- 

 aumont, Chaumontel, Dutchess d'Auiiouleme, Glout Morceau, brown 

 Beurre, Belle et Bonne, Bartlett, Prince's St. Germain, pear from 

 Van Mons, Whitfield, King Edward, Ne Plus Meuris, long green, 

 Wilkinson, Beurre d'Amanlis, Echasserie, Lewis, Gushing, Easter 

 Beurre, Fulton, Rouse Lench, Young's Baking or Pound, Belle Lu- 

 crative, Queen Caroline, Cumberland, Fondnnre des Bois, Colum- 

 bian, Catillac, Beurre d'Arendiurg, Iron or black pear of Worcester, 

 Doyenne Blanc, St. Michael, Buffum, Bleeker's Meadow, Dix,Seck- 

 el, Aljjha, Thompson's Pope, Colinar, late Wilbur, French |)ear 

 (unknown,) green pear of Yair, Pope's Quaker, Bezi de la Motte, 

 Hericart, Hon Chretien Fondante, Verte Longue d'Autunm, Urban- 

 iste, Ci'.ntelope of New Haven, Rousselet de Rheinis, Garnons, Ber- 

 gamot de Paques, and Heathcot; also, Coe's Golden Drop, blue Jm- 

 peratrice, Lombard, and Quetche or Prune plums, yellow red Rare- 

 ripe and seedling peaches; and fall Harvey, Minister, Adams's sweet- 

 ing, and two varieties of seedling apples. 



From Robert Manning, Salem, pears, viz: — Belle et Bonne, No. 

 668 Van Mons, Shenk's, Rousselette de Meester, Muscadine, Glnut 

 Morceau, Cumberland, Passe Colmar, Ronville, Easter Beurre, Be- 

 zi de la Motte, Harvard, winter Nelis, St. Michael, Beurre Bronze, 

 Forme Urbaniste, Calabash, Bon Turk, Urbaniste, Huguenot, Bon 

 Chretien, Seckel, Heathcot, Iron, Jalousie, Wilkinson, Henry IV., 

 King Edward, Golden Beurre of Bilboa, Lammas, Belle Lucrative, 

 Prince's St. Germain, Naunikeag, Dearborn's seeedling, Beurre Du- 

 val, Andrews, Beurre Bosc, Capiaumont, Bonne Louise Royal, sum- 

 mer Thorn, Commodore, Beurre Van Mons, Poire d' Amour, Han- 

 nas, Beurre Diel, Bocquia, Beauchamps, Jalousie of Vendee, Lewis, 

 Rouse Lench, St. Ghislain, Gilogil, Dundas, Washington, long green 

 of Autumn, Duchess of Mars, Dix, Echasserie, Beurre d'Aremberg, 

 Johonnot, Alpha, Hays, Belle of Flanders, Surpasse Virgoulouse, 

 Bartlett, Pailleau, Poire Cellestin, Hacon's Incomi)arable, Althorp 

 Crassane, Fidton, Roi de WurtemburL^ Catillac, Pound, Hericart, 

 Dumortier, Chaumontelle, Monsieur le Cure, Cabot, Queen of the 

 Low Countries, Marie Louise, Amanda's double, brown Beurre, 

 Dutchess d'Angouleme, Quillettette, Beurre Aniandes, Bleeker's 

 Meadow, Pope's russet, John Dean, green suirar, great Citron of Bo- 

 hemia, Capsheaf, Dearborn's (Van Mons,) Bonne Louise de Jersey, 

 Bal Armadi, Cantelope, Syrian, Monarch, Buffum, Nouvelle Bos- 

 Bouck, long green, brown St. Germain, Beurre d'Angleterre, Sulli- 

 van, Josephine, Wilhelmina, Phillips, Bezi Montiguy, and Beurre 



