356 MASSACHUSETTS nORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



The Committee desire to express their most cordial thanks and 

 esteem to the hidy and the gentlemen who have so kindly and gener- 

 ously coutrihuted, by their essays and discussions, to the success 

 and progress of the Society during the year now closing. 



The Committee having been again charged with the dut}' of 

 awarding the prizes offered for the best reports of the committees 

 to award prizes for horticultural products, recommend the follow- 

 ing awards : 



The First Prize of 810 to E. W. Wood, for the Report of the 

 Committee on Fruits. 



The Second Prize of $8, to Charles N. Brackett, for the Report 

 of the Committee on Vegetables. 



The Third Prize of $6, to Joseph H. Woodford, for the Report 

 of the Committee on Plants and Flowers. 



0. B. Hadwen, 



Francis H. Appleton, \- Committee. 



William H. Hunt, 



