5^8 MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



EEPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON VEGETABLES, 



For the Year 1868. 

 by c. n. brackett, chairman. 



The Committee to Avhom was assigned the duty of awarding premiums 

 on Vegetables for the year 18G8, having attended to that duty, submit 

 the following Report: 



Previous to the regular Weekly Exhibitions, contributions of forced 

 Vegetables (in limited quantity) were occasionally made, as usual, in the 

 Library Room, for which gratuities were awarded as follows: 



February 15. To George Hill of Arlington, for very fine specimens 

 of Celery and Lettuce. 

 " 22 & 29. " Josiah Crosby and Walter Russell, for Tennisball 

 Lettuce. 

 D. Zirngiebel, for Short Scarlet Radish. 

 George Hill, for White Spine Cucumbers, and S. 



G. Damon, for Linnaeus Rhubarb. 

 George Dorr and S. G. Damon, for do. 

 John B. Moore, for four benches very fine Aspara- 

 gus, the weight of twelve stalks of which was 

 2 lbs. 95 ozs. 

 " " " Walter Russell, for Asparagus, Josiah Crosby for 



White Spine Cucumbers, and George Hill for 

 Rhubarb and Cucumbers. 

 The attention of your Committee has been called during the past 

 season to several new and valuable varieties of vegetables which have 

 been placed iipon the tables, both at the Weekly and Annual Shows, 

 several of which are deemed worthy of trial, and can be recommended 

 for general cultivation. Among the most prominent may be mentioned 

 the Gen. Grant Tomato and Early Rose Potato. 



The Gen. Grant originated several years since in the garden of an 

 amateur, who, after testing it in connection with all the new and popular 

 varieties recently introduced, found it so much superior to any of 

 them, cither old or new, that he was induced to take measures for its 

 dissemination. 



The fruit is rather above medium size, measuring from three to four 

 inches in diameter, and grows in clusters; form round, slightly flattened, 

 very regular, and rarely ribbed or wrinkled; flesh unusually firm, solid, 

 and free from water, color a brilliant glossy crimson, skin remarkably 

 fine, smooth and shining; is early, productive, and of fine flavor, bears car- 



