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which are of delicious flavor, but generally only moderate bearers, 

 and very high priced. Occasionally a really valuable acquisition 

 is made, but in general new varieties should receive the cautious 

 attention of the common cultivator, whose object is to obtain a 

 profitable and certain crop. 



June 24th, and on other occasions during the season, C. D. 

 Kingman exhibited very handsome specimens of Hathaway's 

 Excelsior Tomato, a medium sized, uniformly round, smooth 

 variety, with fruit growing in clusters. Mr. Kingman informed 

 your Committee, that after having tried many of the leading 

 varieties, he considers this the best of all. Some of our best 

 market gardeners, however, consider it to be too small for a profita- 

 ble market variety, but, on account of its other excellent quali- 

 ties, recommend it as a valuable variety for the amateur kitchen 

 garden. 



A new tomato was shown during the weekly exhibitions of the 

 season, and also at the Annual Show, by John Fillebrown, called 

 the Emery, which, after growing for the past two seasons, he 

 considers a better and more profitable variety than the Boston 

 Market. Your Committee were all favorabl}- impressed with its 

 appearance. It certainly possesses many remarkably excellent 

 properties, and it will no doubt be thoroughly tested the coming 

 season, in order to determine whether it can successfully compete 

 with a variety so firmly established in the estimation of the public 

 as the Boston Market, which has for a long peiiod been the 

 favorite with market gardeners in this vicinity. Mr. Fillebrown, 

 who introduced the Emery, is an experienced cultivator, and 

 a careful observer, and his recommendation may safely be 

 considered as an assurance that we may hope for something of 

 permanent value from this new and promising variety. 



September 4th, N. B. White, of Norwood, Mass., exhibited 

 specimens of a new seedling tomato originating with him, with 

 fruit of a dull pink color, and foliage like the Keyes. 



At the same exhibition, Benj. G. Smith presented fine specimens 

 of Dreer's Improved Lima Bean. It is claimed for this variety, 

 that its distinctive features are earl}^ maturity, productiveness, 

 and extra quality. The specimens shown by Mr. Smith were 

 exceedingly fine. 



For much of the interest attending the weekly exhibitions, 

 especially in the earlier part of the season, the Society is under 



