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and may be kept till January. One gentleman has com- 

 menced an orchard of this kind alone, persuaded that even 

 for the purposes of feeding swine, no other fruit would prove 

 so profitable, or yield so great crops. 

 For the Committee, 



Wm. Kenrick, Chairman. 



November 4, 1837. 

 FRUITS. 



Pears. — From S. Downer, Dorchester, — Duchesse D' 

 Angouleme, Beurre Diel, Monsieur Jean, Urbaniste, Dix, 

 Bleecker's Meadow, and Catillac. 



From J. Clapp, South Reading, — Piatt's Bergamotte, and 

 a kind without name. 



From E. Vose, Esq., Dorchester, — Duchesse D'Angou- 

 leme. 



From Mr Coolidge's Garden, Boston, — St. Michael. 



From E. M. Richards, Dedham, — Warden. 



Apples. — From S. Downer, — Pomme De Neige. 



From Gardner Brown, — Sweet apple, from Medfield, 

 called there, Pomme Water. 



NOVEMBKR 11, 1837. 



FRUITS. 



Dix pear, a fine specimen, from a standard tree of Enoch 

 Bartlett, Roxbury, 



St. Germain pears, fine specimens, from Samuel Sweet- 

 ser, Cambridgeport. A red apple and Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, from Shadrach Freeman, Esq., Sandwich, Barnstable 

 county ; both kinds gave good evidence that fine fruits may 

 be grown on the Cape. These were offered for exhibition 

 by Dr Benjamin Shurtlefl^, Chelsea. 



