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season, stored ia the sap-wood and bark, and does not come immediately 

 from the roots. They are usually with the ground around them at this sea- 

 son frozen, and I have often seen the sap of the maple flow profusely on a 

 warm day in mid-winter when the gi'ound was frozen hard and the snow 

 lay deep under the tree. 



The H^-acinth bulbs likewise contain a reserve of soluble sap, deposited 

 the preceding season, but ready to dissolve the instant the frost leaves the 

 ground. Just as soon in Spring as the temperature of the bulb rises even 

 the least fraction of a degree above SS'^F. it begins to grow, and at the 

 first thaw has its crown at the surface. 



WM. T. HAELOW, Chairman. 



REPORT ON GRAPES, PEACHES, &c. 



Committee. — AVilliam H. Earle, Chairman; Thomas M. Lamb, W. 

 W. Cooke, Horatio Phelps, of Worcester ; Paul Whilin, of Whitinsville ; 

 F. M. Marble, of Grafton ; and Joseph C. Lovell, of West Boylston. 



GRAPES. 



For the best collection, of not exceeding eight named varieties, 

 grown under glass, two clusters of each variety, W. T. 



Merrifield S12 00 



For the second best, Stephen Salisbury 10 00 



For the third best, P. L. Moen 6 00 



For the best two clusters of Black Hamburg, W T. Merrifield. 2 00 



For the second best, P. L. Moen 1 00 



For the best two clusters of any other Black Grape, P. L. Moen 2 00 



For the second best, P. L. Moen 1 00 



For the best two clusters of any White Muscat, P. L. Moen. . 2 00 



For the second best, no award 1 00 



For the best two clusters of any other variety of White, P. L. 



Moen 2 00 



For the second best, P. L. Moen 1 00 



For the best collection of well-ripened out-door grapes, not less 

 than six nor exceeding fifteen named varieties, of four 



clusters each, J. C. Lovell 8 00 



For the second best, F. J. Kinney o 00 



For the third best, no entry 3 00 



For the best four clusters of Concord, Iforatio Phelps 3 00 



