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The Yokohama, a new Squash from Japan, was shown by psveral contribu- 

 tors. The past season has been favorable to its culture. There is a question 

 among cultivators, of our New England summers being long enough to ma- 

 ture it. Its size is against it for profit for general cultivation. 



A new variety of Potato, Holland's Early, by D. T. Curtiss, grown by A. 

 H. Atherton, of Claremont, N. H. Also, a new variety raised by the Chair- 

 man, very early and productive, from Detroit, Michigan, and is believed to be 

 a valuable kind of early, if not the earliest, we have as being suited for market 

 cultivation. This part remains to be proved by more general cultivation in 

 both cases. 



Quite an attraction on one of the tables was one hundred and two named 

 varieties of beans, cultivated by Lucy H. Brewer, of Hingham, a little girl 

 ten years of age. S. A. Merrill, of Salem, had the largest collection : thirty- 

 four named varieties of vegetables, and generally of the choicest kinds. 

 Bowen Harrington, of Lexington, headed one table with a mammoth Squash, 

 weighing one hundred and thirty-three pounds, for which he received the 

 Society's silver medal. And all other contributors did themselves credit by 

 their liberal contributions at the annual exhibition, for which the Society feel 

 very grateful. 



ABNER PIERCE, Chairman. 



