TRANSACTIONS, 6lc. 77 



Report on Vegetables. 



Committee. — George Jaques, of Worcester, Chainnan ; C. W. 

 Forbush, of Grafton, D. W. Lincoln, Gardiner Paine, and Joseph 

 Lovell, Jr., of Worcester. 



The Committee are happy in being able to speak very favorably 

 of the department of the exhibition, which came under their special 

 examination. Not only was the number of entries of Vegetables 

 unusually large, but the specimens themselves were, for the most 

 part, exceedingly well grown, evincing an assiduous and skilful cul- 

 tivation, which deserves a more particular notice, from the consider- 

 ation, that this department of the exhibition has, hitherto, been too 

 much neglected. On some former occasions, indeed, embarrassed 

 by the scanty materials for a report, committees have had recourse 

 to extraneous topics, and. have amused themselves with more or less 

 successful attempts at wit, which, to say the least, have served no 

 valuable purpose in promoting the objects aimed at by the Associ- 

 ation. 



The exhibition of the present year has indicated a 'better state of 

 things, encouraging the hope that the display of Vegetables may, 

 from year to year, become more and more attractive. For, surely, it 

 is not to be denied, that the discovery of a single new article of 

 vegetable food, or an improvement in the modes of cultivating such 

 as are already known, is of more real utility to mankind, than the 

 introduction of a hundred new pears, or a million new flowers, of 

 whatever excellence or beauty. 



The following is a list of the articles exhibited in this department, 

 as copied from the Secretary's Book of Entries. The contributors 

 were residents of this city, except when some other place of resi- 

 dence is especially designated. 



D. Waldo Lincoln. Lima Beans, Saba Beans, Savoy Cabbage, 

 Drum Head Cabbage, Strap Leaved Turnip, Caula Rapa, Stowell's 

 Evergreen Corn, Tomatoes, Blood Beets, Turnip Beets, Altringhara 

 Carrots, Walcheren Cauliflower, White Solid Celery. 



E. M. Banning. CofToe, Potatoes. 

 Ira Bryant. Egyptian Corn. 



