60 



Best basket of Assorted Fruit, Peter Wait, Danvers, first 

 premium, $3. 



Aaron Low, Essex, second premium, $2. 



Total amount of premiums, - - $34 00 



" " " gratuities, - - 6 00 $40 00 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Committee — S. W. Hopkinson, Robert Rich, John A. Putnam. 



FLOWERS. 



There were one hundred and sixteen entries in the floral 

 department, for which the Committee had eighteen dollars to 

 appropriate in special premiums, and five dollars and one copy 

 of Harris on Insects in gratuities. This small amount of 

 money must be the excuse which the Committee reluctantly 

 oifer for passing so many beautiful bouquets and designs of 

 both cultivated and wild flowers without a premium or gratuity. 

 There were many varieties of foreign plants on exhibition from 

 the dwellings and conservatories of the citizens of Gloucester, 

 especially specimens of foreign grasses that were unique and 

 very beautiful. There were also some very fine tube roses 

 from Astoria, L. 1. The ladies of Gloucester deserve great 

 credit for the interest that they manifested in this exhibition of 

 the Society, and the Committee sincerely hope that their 

 example may be followed by the ladies in other localities where 

 the Society may hold its annual festival. Great progress has 

 been made during the last few years in the public taste for 

 flowers as well as in cultivating them. The increasing interest 

 in the floral exhibition at our Fairs gives promise of further 

 improvement in this department. The Committee would suggest 

 that the list of special premiums that the Society now offer 

 for flowers, be revised or enlarged so as to include some of the 



