146 BOARD OP AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



cents per gallon. Mr. Bulkeley, of Williamstown, says that he has 

 grown fourteen hundred varieties of seedling potatoes ; if Mr. Bulke- 

 ley has made no mistake in his count, he has certainly done up a work 

 on an extended scale, which from the specimens shown do not promise 

 to be of much importance to the public. Experiments, such as are 

 noted above, should be tried, but few individuals are willing to try 

 them, and very few can afford the outlay ; they should be borne by 

 the public. 



The vegetables exhibited by Mr. B. S. Young, of Brighton, George 

 R. Sampson, of Brookline, Mr. Coppenhagen, of Dorchester, and 

 W, G. Lewis, of Framingham, all deserve our notice, and had there 

 been other premiums offered, would have been awarded to them. 

 Their fine squashes, cauliflowers, cabbages, turnips, beets, &c., &c., 

 were creditable to them as cultivators. Mr. Merrill, of Salem, and 

 Mr. Fogg, of Cambridgeport, exhibited some monstrous squashes ; also 

 one from Mr. Newell, of Needham. They are sightly, but not to be 

 preferred to the vegetable marrow, crookneck or Canada, for table 

 use. Edward Dole, of Newburyport, had a fine display of vegeta- 

 bles, which were not entered ; his corn was judged the best, but no 

 premium could be given as he had not complied with the rules. The 

 committee recommend, however, a gratuity of five dollars, equal to 

 the first premium. Fine strings of corn and onions were exhibited 

 by Mr. A. D. Weld, William Buckminster, and Mr. Dole, and Harvey 

 Dodge. Of grasses, a fine collection was made by Mr. Leander Weth- 

 erell from the office of the Board of Agriculture, for exhibition only.. 

 A collection was also offered for premium by Mr. Dennis Murray, but 

 was not adjudged worthy of a premium ; fine specimens were offered 

 of field crops, which will be noticed in full in the coming reports. A 

 specimen of the noted Nantucket pumpkin, and fine turnips of the 

 varieties of the snow-ball and green globe, larger than the draAvings 

 of them, by E. W. Gardner, of Nantucket ; the Messrs. Hovey exhibit- 

 ed the largest dioscorea batatas* or Chinese potatoes, ever seen at our 

 Massachusetts exhibitions, measuring twenty-three inches in length. 

 Chinese sugar cane, from Azel Bowditch. Sirup from the cane was 

 exhibited by Franklin H. Williams, of Sunderland, and John Whit- 

 ley, of Shirley Village. The flour exhibited was made from white winter 



• Dioscorea Batatas. — The following notice lias been received from the Chairman of the Com- 

 mittee on Vegetables : — 



" Dear Sir : — Since my report on vegetables was rendered to you, I have caused the two fine root* 

 of the Dioscorea Batatas, given to me by Messrs. Ilovcy, to be cooked, one by being boiled, the 

 other by being roasted ; they .vero submitted to the taste of a company of amateur Horticulturists, 

 who were of the opinion that if they were ripe, there waa nothing in them to recommend their 

 •uperiority over the Irish, or Sweet potato. 



Yours truly, B. V. Feench." 



