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or down the tables, where everything is. This plan would 

 also be especially good, if used in the display of fruit, which 

 is always fine at our shows, and would be the means, among 

 both vegetables and fruit, of acquiring for our exhibitors even 

 more credit than they can possibly derive at present. These 

 opinions are most respectfully submitted by the Chairman of 

 this Committee, and are based, not only upon his experience 

 and observation in serving at our last show, with a number of 

 gentlemen most admirably qualified for the place, but also 

 from what he has seen at many other shows in this country 

 and in Europe. 



The Massachusetts Horticultural Society had not concluded 

 to fully adopt this plan until this centennial year ; why cannot 

 we begin the new century by adopting it before our next 

 show? 



Francis H. Appleton, Chairman. 



Statement of Hay den A. Merrill. 



The piece of cubage which I enter for premium, was on 

 broken up sod, and was planted about the first of June with 

 Fottler's Brunswick, with the exception of about one-fourth 

 part, which was set out with plants of the same variety, which 

 I procured of one of my neighbors. 



I used two cords of compost in the hill. The compost con- 

 sisted of one-half muck, the balance being horse and cow 

 manure, night soil, fish waste, sea manure, with about 175 

 pounds of muriate of potash, the whole being well mixed 

 and fermented. The cost of the compost could not, to the 

 best of my calculations, have been over six dollars a cord. 

 And the same estimate would apply to the squashes, with the 

 exception of the cost of the potash. 



I have marketed only one hundred and fifty of the cabbages, 

 they bringing eight cents each. They were sold two weeks 

 ago, and would probably at this time have brought from $10 

 to $12 per hundred. 



I have counted the heads, and find 1,200 that would sell 

 for about $10 per hundred (the average weight of which was 

 sixteen pounds, four hundred that would sell for about $5 per 

 hundred, one hundred that would sell for about $2 per hun- 



