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premiums offered, have awarded but one premium, as before re- 

 ported. 



Your committee were also directed to award a premium for 

 the finest display of the plum and the musk-melon. Of the 

 former there was but one specimen exhibited, which, in the 

 opinion of the committee, did not merit a premium ; and of the 

 latter no specimen was exhibited. 



The committee were also authorized to award a premium of 

 $6 for the best display of the cultivated native grape. There 

 were but few specimens of this fruit presented, and these were 

 all so imperfect and inferior that the committee did not deem 

 it proper to assign to either the reward offered. 



Your committee, thinking that the interests of the society 

 would be thus promoted, have distributed, in gratuities before 

 reported, the premiums offered upon those articles of which 

 there have been no specimens presented, or where the speci- 

 mens presented have been so inferior, as, in the opinion of the 

 committee, not to merit any premium. 



They also recommend that hereafter the premiums at pre- 

 sent offered for displays of peaches, plums, and the musk-melon, 

 be discontinued, and that a list of premiums be offered for dis- 

 plays of the quince ; and that the sums of money now offered 

 for these fruits be applied to the premiums on the quince, and 

 to increasing the number and amount of premiums offered 

 upon apples and pears. 



Respectfully submitted. 



B. Sanford, Chairman. 



Ornamental and Forest Trees. 



The use and cultivation of trees for ornament is not an in- 

 troduction of modern times. The garden in the east was fur- 

 nished with every kind of tree which was " pleasant to the 

 sight," or good for food. There flourished in luxuriance and 

 beauty the 



" Cedar, and pine, and fir, and branching palm;" 



and on every hill-side and in every valley waved — 



" Groves, whose rich trees wept odorous gums and balms," 



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