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Floral Desigxs. — For best display, to Mrs. S. D. Ward, of Shrewsbury, 4 00 



Gratuity to Dr. S. Flagg, 1 00 



Dahlias. — For best display, to H. Stoddard, of Upton, 1 00 



Asters. — To James L. Burbank, 1 00 



Roses. — For best display, to W. A. Wheeler, 1 00 



Gratuities. — For basket of Flowers, to Mrs. Edwin Morse, 1 00 



For two large Bouquets, to Miss Mary Fitch, 1 00 



For Cut Flowers, to Mrs. E. Earle, 1 00 



For Gladiolus and others, to Mrs. M. B. Green, 1 00 



For Roses and Stocks, to Jonathan Grout, 1 00 



For Asters and Dahlias, to Mrs. B. S. Tainter, 1 00 



For Wax Flowers, to Miss Angelina Phillips, of Shrewsbury, 1 00 



For Basket, to Mrs. C. E. Brooks, 50 



For Flowers, to Miss H. Wheeler, .50 



JOHN D. WASHBURN, Chairman. 



REPORT ON GRAPES, PEACHES, &c. 



Francis H. Dewey, Worcester, Chairman; William Workman, John C. 

 Ripley, Worcester; Asa H. Waters, Millbury; Jonathan Grout, Wor- 

 cester. 



This Committee has usually been styled the Committee on Peaches and 

 other Fruits, undoubtedly because Peaches were regarded as the leading fruit 

 for the examination of this Committee, but alas for the change that has come, 

 over us. In 1852 there were fifty different contributors of Peaches ; this year 

 the Committee looked and wished in vain for a single peach whereon to feast 

 their eyes. They would have promised not to taste, had any fortunate pos- 

 sessor ventured it on the table. The cold weather of last winter had done 

 its work, and not one survived to tell the tale ; but let us not be discouraged, 

 though the yellows kill our trees and the cold destroys our fruit-buds, we 

 cannot give up our peaches — the beautiful, luscious peach — though it be as 

 coy of its crimson cheeks, as the blushing maiden, we must persevere until we 

 gain the prize, seven of which this year remain uncalled for in the Society's 

 Treasury. (Of course we mean the premiums — not the maidens.) 



And next we sought the Plum, the smooth-faced sister of the Peach ; but, 

 oh ! what a falling off was there. In 1852, J. M. Earle, Esq., exhibited 

 twenty-one varieties, besides numerous other contributors of a less number. 

 This year Coe's Golden Drop stood forth in solitary grandeur, and to Timothy 

 R. Green, of Worcester, for the largest, best and only collection the Commit- 

 tee-awarded $2.00. 



Though we sorrowed at our loss of the Peaches and Plums, yet with our 

 sorrow, mingled joy as we turned and contemplated the large and attractive 

 offerings of Grapes, and the pleasures of the arduous duty of tasting and thus 

 testing their comparative excellence. 



