462 Exhibitions of Horticultural Societies. 



From Noah Allen, of Shrewsbury, were some sweet greeninirs. 

 Friar or Balk apple, spice apple; and, in dimensions the lion of the 

 exhibition, in the form of a pear, the first and only product of a 

 tree, weighing forty-two ounces good by the scales, measuring 20i 

 inches round, and whose longest circumference, excluding the stem, 

 was 27^ inches; whether this fruit has particular merits the commit- 

 tee were not informed, but it had the appearance of a respectable 

 baking pear, (Catillac.) John H. Richardson, Esq., of Watertown, 

 sent fine Roxbury russets, and a Bond apple. From Oliver Green, 

 Crow's Egg, red Gilliflower, and two seedling apples. Col. Asa H. 

 Waters, of Millbury, from his excellent fruitery, contributed large 

 clusters of black Hamburg and Sweetvvater grapes, whose elegant 

 festoons, suspended in the hall, were sore temptations, and not sour 

 in any respect, save that they could not be reached; Col. Waters also 

 sent a pomegranate. From John McLellan, Esq., of Woodstock, 

 Ct., were sound russets, the product of 1841. The fruit of Oliver 

 Johnson, of Sterling, was equal to any in the Hall, and the speci- 

 mens all in remarkably good condition; he produced Seckel pears, 

 St. Michael, and a variety which he entered as unknown, but which 

 is proved to be the Princess of Orange; also, Morse's sweeting ap- 

 ple, Porter, Nonsuch, striped, Father sweeting, russet pearmain, 

 and another sweeting. 



Edmund F. Dixie, whose skill is adequate to the production of al- 

 most all good fruits, and whose contribution of valuable services and 

 fruits, at former exhibitions, has been so essential to the success of an 

 infant society, was determined on this occasion not to be outdone by 

 his anterior self. He exhibited apples— Iron, fall orange, brown Beurre, 

 St. Michael, Passe Colmar, Pound Pear, Winter orange, Easter 

 Beurre, and three nameless; also, red clingstone peaches, and two 

 varieties of white ditto; Lyscom apples, and some curious looking 

 Pine potatoes, which were christened "Rohan turtles." Thomas H. 

 Kinnicutt was an exhibitor of some good specimens of Bellflower ap- 

 ples, Rhode Island greenings, and russets. Dr. William Workman's 

 Isabella grajjes were of high excellence, the bloom scarcely marred; 

 he also exhibited some well looking late peaches, greenings, blue 

 pearmain, beautiful examples of Bellflower apples, and Roxbury rus- 

 sets. Charles Paine sent good s[)ecimens of Hamburg pippins and 

 Nonsuch apples, and a fine looking apple without a name, of which 

 the scion was obtained from Washington. 



S. H. Colton exhiliited Lemon clingstone, red-cheeked Melacaton, 

 Burnett's seedling, Parie Admirable peaches; apples — greening's, 

 PommewBter, Baldwin, blue pearmain, Tolman's sweet, Nonsuch, 

 Peck's pleasant, Honey greenings; pears — Beurre, Cai)iaumont, 

 Buffum (fine,) Seckel (large specimens,) Frederic of Wurteniburg, 

 St. Michael, brown Beurre, Easter Beurre, Beurre P'ortune, Passe 

 Colmar; also, the Japan quince, being soinid and well tTiatured fruit 

 of the beautiful and favorite flowering shrub, Fyrus japonica. This, 

 as a curiosity, is worthy of notice, and, so far as the committee are ac- 

 quainted, is the first mature product of our vicinity. Ichabod Wash- 

 burn, Esq. brought two large baskets of Isabella grapes, well ripened 

 and of excellent flavor, and Passe Colmar, Buffum, and Bleeker's 

 Meadow pears; also, fine Portugal quinces, Pear quince, and an ap- 



