TRANSACTIONS, &c. 



diligently present as nameless, every year, some of the best known 

 and widest cultivated varieties. 



This is a wrong to the Committee, who every year devote so- 

 much labor and time to the subject ; a wrong to the Society, which 

 every year appoints these very committees to correct, as Avell as 

 examine, the names of the varieties presented; and a wrong to the 

 art of Horticulture in general, whose first maxim is, that what is 

 worth cultivating at all, is worth cultivating under a fixed and unal- 

 terable name. 



We consider it, then, the duty of cultivators, both to themselves, 

 to the Society, to the Committee, and to the art in general, that 

 every year they examine the report and corrected list of the society, 

 carefully noting the corrections they may find in the names of their 

 own specimens, that the really valuable fruits of our county may be 

 carefully separated from the mass of v/orthless trash, which every 

 year finds its way into our exhibition. 



Mr. James Longley, Boylston, presented the Porter, Roxbury 

 Russet, Lyscom, Maiden's Blush, Baldwin, Seek no Further, Blue 

 Pearmain, R, I. Sweeting, Hubbardston Nonsuch, Cat Head, and 

 one nameless, which is named the Gravenstein, and one, the Friar. 



Mr. Monteville Flagg, Boylston, presented the Gravenstein, 

 Hamburg Pippin (fine specimen), Lyscom, Porter, Red Harvey, 

 Blue Pearmain, and two nameless varieties. 



Mr. Nahum Flagg, Boylston, the R. I. Greening, improperly 

 called Pippin. 



Mrs. S. Rice, "Worcester. A fine, large, striped apple, named the 

 Lima by the Committee, and one variety unknown. 



Mr. Alpheus Adams, Northboro'. Blue Pearmain, Red Harvey, 

 Baldwin, Fall Harvey, Porter, Delicate (very handsome). Bitter 

 Sweet, Early Bough, and two varieties unknown. 



Mr. S. P. Champney, Worcester. Lyscom and Holden Pippin, 

 (misnamed Champney Pippin.) 



Mr. P. Holman, Leicester. Peck's Pleasant (misnamed Pippin), 

 Baldwin, R. I. Greening, Russet Sweeting, Roxbury Russet, Ux- 

 briJge Sweeting, Nonsuch, Winter Sweeting, and one unknown, all 

 fine, well cultivated specimens. 



State Lunatic Hospital, by R. Woodward. Leland's Spice, Hub- 

 bardston Nonsuch, Hamburg. 



