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In Mr. Walker's lot of pears, were specimens of three crops of the 

 present season. William R. Prince, of Flushing, brouglit two seed- 

 ling peaches, Oct. 24th, one of which was ripe ami ihe other begin- 

 ning^ lo ripen. Mr. J. B. Mantel, Forty-sixth-street, Blooniingdale, 

 N. Y., pruiluced fit'ty-thrce varieties of the most celeb: atecl autumn 

 pears, together with several dwarf-bearing a|)ple trees, about thirty- 

 inches high J also a dish of medlars, a remarkably rare fruit with us. 

 We regret that Mr. Mantel's pears were deterioiated by over ripe- 

 ness before the decision of the judges. Mr. Daniel Bole, of Bloom- 

 iiigdale, exhibited an orange tiee, two leet in heigiit, the fiiiit of 

 wnich measured fourteen inches in circumlereni:e ; also several other 

 ai tides wuich were creditable to his tsiablishnjent. We cannot 

 close without noticing two branches of the Cedar of Lebanon, with 

 cones in a mature state, from T. Ash, Throg's neck, N. Y. ; also a 

 lot of raspberries grown by Thoiiias Cnmmins, gardener to Thomas 

 Addis Emmet. Liberal contributions of giii])es were exhibited, the 

 most prominent of which were adjudged by the inspecting com- 

 mittee. 



In the vegetable department were several fine specimens of edible 

 plants and roots of the following species, from various contributors: 

 beets, beans, cauliHower, cabbage, capsicums, carrots, cucumbers, 

 celery, egg plants, horse radish, onions, okra, parsnips, potatoes, 

 pumpkins, salsify, squashes, tomatoes, turnips, &,c. ; also the lol- 

 lowing rare productions : a fine lot of the globe artichoke, a luxury 

 scarcely known in this part of America, but highly esteemed in 

 Europe : they were raised by Samuel Kuth, gardener to John Beek- 

 man, who also exhibited seventy potatoes, measuring three pecks and 

 weigiiing forty-three pounds, tue produce of one tuber. R. L. Colt, 

 of ir'alerson, N. J., lorwarded one bushel of pink-eyed potatoes, 

 which he represents as yielding six hundreil bushels to the acre. R. 

 L. Pell, of Pelham, Ulster county, N. Y., produced several fine 

 samples of ditferent vaiieties, amongst which were Egyptian kidney, 

 red Maine, and some very handsome pink-eyed kidneys, which yield- 

 ed 432 bushels to the acre. ]\Jr. P. states that '.hey were planted 

 near the end of May, and gathered about the middle of October. A 

 peck of extra fine potatoes rienominated ierficiio7ij were sent i'rom 

 the garden of T. A. Emmet, Mount Vernon, N. Y. Twenty-one 

 varieties of potatoes, viz. round pink-eyes, western red, flesh color, 

 long pink-eyes, fnxites, St. Helena, early kidney, St. Marie, Liver- 

 pool blues, rohan, together with ten varieties of seedlings not named, 

 were forwarded to the Horticultural Room by Akxamler Walsh, of 

 Lansingburgh. J. B. Townsend, of Newtown, L. I., deposited a 

 bushel each of two varieties of very suj)erior potatoes. Baskets 

 containing a peck each, were received from the following persons, 

 all of which we consider entitled to especial notice : Eugene Bogart, 

 Bloomingdale ; S. Fleet, Hastings, N. Y. ; J. Outhouse, Croton, 

 N. Y. ; Wm. A Stone, Rahw.iy,"N. J. ; T. B. Wakeman, Bergen, 

 N. J. J and Berlin Wilson, Croton, N. Y, 



Of pumpkins, there were as there ever should be, a full and fair 

 representation — for a thanksgiving day, especiiilly in the New Eng- 



