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REPOKT ON VEGETABLES. 



Committee. — Alexander Marsh, Chairman ; Thomas R. Norcross, J 

 D. Lovell, O. L. Hatch, Rufus Caiter, Daniel Bemis, Charles Belcher, 

 and William H. Hackett, of Worcester. 



The Committee on Vegetables have attended to their duty, and beg 

 leave to report: The Trustees have made great alterations in their re- 

 quirements in regard to the number of each article, and of the number of 

 articles, there being no premiums offered for the largest collections. This 

 is much to the satisfaction of the Committee. It is to be regretted that 

 those bringing their vegetables should not fetch them in season to have 

 them classed as well as their apples and pears ; and it is unfortunate that 

 the Society does not take some means to have a better display on the 

 tables, by enforcing a system that will place each article which is to come 

 in competition for premiums, side by side, so that the Committee shall 

 not overlook specimens, as under the present arrangement. The Exhi- 

 bition opened September 28th, the week following the Agricultural Fair. 

 It may be a question yet to be settled when it will be for the best interest 

 of the- Society to hold their Annual Fair, but we will leave it to Aviser 

 heads to determine. Your Committee are fully aware that in the short 

 time allotted to them it is impossible to do justice to all, but as they Avent 

 at their work determined to have no preferences, they were very harmo- 

 nious in their awards, whether right or wrong. The specimens were gen- 

 erally very good, and we are happy to say quite as good as we had reason 

 to expect. 



ALEXANDER MARSH, 



Chairman of the Committee. 



