ON FRUITS, FLOWERS AND VEGETABLES. 49 



The exhibition of flowers was not large. The exceedingly hot and 

 dry season has been unfavorable to the production of fine specimens. 

 The boquets from the ladies of Lynn and Salem were arranged with 

 good taste. The pyramids of flowers, the ornamental baskets, and 

 the grass boquets were beautiful, and attracted much attention. 



The Society is indebted to the Natural History Society of Lynn, 

 for their liberality in relinquishing their own annual exhibition for the 

 benefit of this ; and for their valuable aid in the decoration of the 

 hall, and the arrangement of the tables. 



The Committee recommend the following gratuities : 



Fruits. — R. Manning, John M. Ives, Joseph S. Cabot and Otis 

 Johnson, two dollars each; Ebenezer Browne, one dollar and fifty cents; 

 G. W. Oliver, J. Oliver, M. Pettingill, A. Dodge and R. Mudge, 

 one dollar each ; J. S. Sanderson, J. Webster, H. A. Breed and 

 W. G. Lake, seventy-five cents each ; Andrews Breed, J. B. John- 

 son, E. Johnson, Nathan Breed, Dr. Nye, Alfred Peabody and J. 

 Ober, fifty cents each; Samuel Putnam, E. F. Dodge, E. Neal, 

 C. B. Holmes, R. Johnson, Isaac Childs, D. N. Breed, J. B. Gould, 

 Joseph Breed, Cyrus Hoten, Samuel Tufts, D. Moulton, J. Berry, 

 J. Daley, J. Alley, 3d, J. Marsh, F. Tudor, J. Tuttle, Isaiah Breed, 

 William Preston, J. Brown and Josiah Newhall, twenty-five cents 

 each. 



Flowers. — Mr. West, of Salem, pyramidal boquet, one dollar ; 

 Miss Bowler, do., Miss Brown, do., Miss Fames, boquet. Miss In- 

 galls, do., and Miss Connor, pyramid of flowers, fifty cents each; 

 Mrs. S. Newhall, do.. Miss S. R. Ives, do., and Mrs. Parsons, do., 

 twenty-five cents each; Mrs. R. Mudge, do., fifty cents. 



Vegetables. — L. Wait, of Ipswich, and Abel Burnham, of Es- 

 sex, one dollar each; N. D. Chase, of Lynn, William Coggshall and 

 Josiah Newhall, fifty cents each ; Jonas Holt, William Abbott, A. 

 Hill, William Mansfield, Winthrop Newhall, Frederic Needham, 

 Samuel Putnam, William Osborne, J. P. Woodman and Wm. P. 

 Carlton, twenty-five cents each. 



For the Committee, 



OTIS JOHNSON. 



Lynn, October 1st, 1846. 



