1865.] REPORT ON GRAPES, PEACHES, ETC. 13 



Premiums were offered for green-house and stove plants. Some of this class 

 were included in the collections above mentioned, but there were no distinct 

 entries. V 



No " floral designs " were exhibited. 



Cut Flowers. — Best stand, Mrs. Daniel Tainter, 2 00 



Second best, Stephen Salisbury, 1 00 



Best arranged basket or dish. Miss Frances M. Lincoln, 2 00 



Second best, Mrs. Daniel Tainter, 1 00 



Bouquets.-!— Best pair, Henry Forney, 2 00 



Roses. — Best (and only) display, Jona. Grout, 3 00 



Gladiolus. — The only display was made by Mrs. M. B. Green, and to 



her we award the second premium of. 2 00 



Asters. — Best display, Joseph Lovell, 1 00 



Dahlias. — Best display, James T. Pike, 1 00 



Verbexas. — Best display, Jonathan Grout, 1 00 



Mrs. H. 0. Goodrich contributes a Carnation Pink which was a slip only 

 three months ago, but is now of great size ; and an Oleander which has grown 



as wondrously in months, — results indicative of excellent care on that 



lady's part. 



Mr. Grout contributes a curious plant, the Tagetes signata pumila, the first 

 specimen that ever blossomed in this city. 



A full-sized Oleander ornaments the Hall, contributed by Mrs. Charles Shute ; 

 and among the curiosities of the exhibition is to be mentioned a collection of 

 Cocoons of the silk-worm, furnished by Miss S. E. Chamberlain. 



All of which is respectfully submitted for the Committee, 



CHARLES A. CHASE, Chairman. 



REPORT ON GRAPES, PEACHES, &c., &c. 



George Jaques, Chairman; Benjamin Butman, John Milton Earle, 

 E. S. Stebbins, John C. Ripley, of Worcester; and Paul Whitin, of 

 Whitinsville. 



The Committee on Fruits other than Apples and Pears, were gratified to find 

 that the department of the Exhibition which they were appointed to examine, 

 contained a large and beautiful display of green-house and open-air Grapes, 

 comprising almost all the varieties having an established reputation in this sec- 

 tion of country. 



Of Grapes, grown under glass, the principal contributors were Wm. T. Mer- 

 rifield, John C. Mason, D. Waldo Lincoln, and Wm. A. Wheeler, all of Wor- 

 cester. Mr. Merrifield's collection consisted of fourteen varieties ; Mr. Mason's 

 of thirteen, and the berries in this latter collection were not quite so highly col- 



