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No premium could be more richly deserved, for these noble and 

 perfect flowers were the observed of all observers. John Ring 

 is Mr. Salisbury's gardener. 



For the best twelve ears of Sweet Corn, Joseph Lovell, of Worcester, 1 00 



Some doubt was entertained concerning the premium for the best 

 twelve tomatoes, but it was finally awarded to Daniel Tainter for 

 his Tilden Tomatoes, W. W. Cook being the gardener, 1 00 



For his fine lot Water-melons, and his Muskmelons, was deemed to 



deserve a gratuity, C. Willard Hamilton, of Worcester, 1 00 



A gratuity for his excellent Onions, Charles E. Parker, of Worcester, 50 



A gratuity for very superior Swedish Turni])s, George R. Peckham, 



of Worcester, 50 



The Society are under obligations of gratitude to many other contributors, but 

 it is impossible here, for want of time to particularize all of their various degrees 

 of merit. T. W. Wellington exhibited thirteen varieties: Mrs. Solomon 

 Parsons, 15, and Mrs. A. C. Boswell, 15, all of Worcester. 



The other contributors are Edward W. Lincoln, Worcester ; Harvey G. 

 Upham, of Worcester ; (prolific hops) Cyrus White, of Millbury ; Walter J. 

 Watson, Charles A. Keyes, and J. Henry Hill, of Worcester ; F. R. Hodgman, 

 of Millbury ; (3 Squashes, I2O5 lbs., from one seed) J. Nelson Jacobs, of 

 Worcester; S. W. Howe, of Shrewsbury ; L. W. Merrifield, of West Boylston ; 

 (a Hubbard Squash of 1865) George H. Estabrook, Mrs. James A. Fuller, and 

 Perry Thayer, of Worcester; Newell Wood, of Millbury ; Stephen S. Foster 

 and Samuel B. Woodward, aged 13, of Worcester ; Nathan Stone, of Shrews- 

 bury ; Horatio Slocum, of Sandersville ; James T. Pike and George Weir 

 (Scotch Kail) of Worcester. 



" The Club House Conserves Co.," having their office at 19 West St., Boston, 

 exhibited cans of " Huckins' Patent Improved Tomato Soup," and invited a 

 thorough test. This article, though in a sense a manufactured one, and from 

 without the County, is nevertheless akin to the subjects in which the Society 

 deals, and judging from the tests already made, is undoubtedly of intrinsic 

 merit, highly concentrated, nutritious and wholesome, and deserving the fame 

 it has acquired at the Parker House in Boston, and among the community at 

 large. 



I have been requested by a number of this Committee to suggest, for the ac- 

 tion of the Society on a future and suitable occasion, the propriety of granting 

 some authority, if not already existing, to issue medals or other tributes of 

 honor for deserving articles of fruits and vegetables, artificially preserved for 

 household use. 



If the various garden esculents now so essentially useful in all civilized life, 

 could be traced from their original wilding types, through all their progress to 

 their present highly improved state, the history would be replete with interest, 

 and would probably be found coincident with the advancing steps from savage 

 life to the highest civilization reached by man. 



