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comparison with well known standard sorts, and were pronounced 

 in quality superior to all. The Society's Silver Medal was 

 awarded Mr. Bresee, for his new seedling potato, Leader. 



The Committee would again call the attention of exhibitors to 

 Eules 3 and 20 of the General Rules and Regulations, as under these 

 rules they have, in several instances, been obliged to disqualify 

 contributions, otherwise worthy, for having had more than the re- 

 quired number of specimens, or more than one variety on the 

 same dish. They would also caution contributors against running 

 to the extreme in size, in selecting specimen potatoes, as seems to 

 have been done in several instances at the Annual Exhibition. 

 Medium, even-sized, smooth, and clean specimens are preferable 

 for the table or for exhibition ; and in making their awards the 

 Committee will regard the above requisites as of more importance 

 than overgrowth. We noticed, in one collection, several potatoes 

 which had actually been pruned of prongs and excrescences, to 

 bring them into proper shape, in order that they might be retained 

 simply on account of their size. As the Committee is at present 

 constituted, a resort to any such method of improving specimens, 

 with the expectation of gaining a prize, is simply labor in vain. 



Cauliflowers. — The principal exhibitors at the Annual Exhi- 

 bition were ^Y. W. Rawson, Samuel Hartwell, and W. H. Teel. 

 The large and well grown specimens shown by these gentlemen 

 fully sustained their well earned reputations as successful growers 

 of the cauliflower. The First Special Prize was awarded to W. W. 

 Rawson ; who also received the Special Prize for the best collection 

 of Seedling Potatoes — the Society's Silver Medal. 



Celery. — The Special Prizes for Celery called out a larger num- 

 ber of competitors than usual. The specimens shown have never 

 been excelled ; and they formed a very interesting and attractive 

 feature of the exhibition. The first prize was won by George 

 Hill, and the second by W. W. Rawson. 



Squashes, at the Annual Exhibition, were shown in less num- 

 bers than usual, although some of the specimens were of superior 

 quality. The Hubbards and Turbans from W. "VY. Rawson, and 

 Marrows from George Hill, were worthy of especial mention. 



The various Root Crops have been exhibited in about the usual 



quantity and variety ; and there has been notliing worthy of special 



mention for its novelty. As to quality, to particularize seems 



needless, for nearly every specimen on the tables at the Annual 



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