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with Guano ; product, eight good ears, and four or five useless ones ; 

 weight, eight pounds. Only two spoonfuls of the Guano were used on 

 this hill. These specimens were taken from a small piece planted with 

 corn at the same time. Every other hill manured with Guano, and the 

 effect is the same throughout the whole. 



August 26th'. — An adjourned meeting of the Society was held, the Pre- 

 sident in the chair. 



Mr. S. Walker, chairman of a committee chosen some time since to 

 select a building lot for the Society, requested that the committee might 

 be discharged from any further duty, which was granted. 



Adjourned one week to September 3d. 



Exhibited. — Flowers : From Hovey and Co., ten small and pretty bou- 

 quets composed mostly of Bourbon, Tea, Bengal and Noisette roses. W. 

 E. Carter exhibited a plant of Achimenes longiflora ; also, four kinds of 

 lobelias, viz. L. syphilitica and cardinalis, and two other kinds. From S. A. 

 Walker, several dahlias and bouquets. From S. R. Johnson, fine Bal- 

 sams, Verbenas, Roses, &c. From E. Winslow, several fine dahhas and 

 phloxes, &c. From J. Hovey, verbenas. Phlox Drummondn, bouquets, 

 &c. J. Breck and Co. exhibited some good German asters. From H. 

 W. Button, several dahlias, including a few very good flowers. Bouquets 

 were also exhibited by S. Walker, W. Kenrick, J. F. Trull, J. L. L. F. 

 Warren and others. 



Fruits: The display of fruits was exceedingly good, though not quite 

 equal to the preceding Saturday. From L. P. Grosvenor, beautiful Wil- 

 liams's Favorite, Garden Sweet, Hill-top, River, Mexico, Early Bough, 

 Benoni and Amber crab apples. From S. Pond, five boxes good Wash- 

 ington plums. O. Johnson exhibited fine Fotheringham plums ; also, 

 summer Franc R6al, Julienne and English Red Cheek (^) pears, and 

 Early Bough apples and peaches. From A. D. Williams, superb speci- 

 mens of Williams's Favorite apple. Small yellow plums from I. Bartlett, 

 Quincy, which appeared to be the the Drap d'Or, though gathered from a 

 tree supposed to be a native seedling. Apricots of good size from the 

 Hon. John Welles. S. R. Johnson, fine Washington plums. 



Hovey and Co. exhibited a branch of the Ohio Everbearing Raspberry, 

 with green and ripe fruit, being the produce of the second crop on the 

 wood of the present year. Large figs from F. Tudor, raised at Nahant. 

 Benoni apples from Dr. E. Wight. From J. Hovey, plums without name. 

 From Geo. 0. Farmer, Sweetwater grapes. Apricots from E. E. Brad- 

 shaw, Charlestown. From J.T. Buckingham, a good specimen of the Cham- 

 pagne currant. From S. Walker, Washington plums and very large summer 

 Franc Real and Williams's Bonchretien pears. The most splendid speci- 

 mens of plums ever placed upon the Society's table were from Captain 

 Lovett ; they were very large, fair, and beautifully tinted with red on the 

 sunny side : he also exhibited handsome apples called the Early Dutch, 

 and a large canteloupe melon. From S. A. Walker, Washington plums. 

 From the Pomological Garden, Rostiezer, and Passe long bras pears, 

 (the latter inferior,) and Devonshire Quarrenden, and Corse's Seedling 

 sweet apples. From P. P. Spalding, Lowell, specimens of a new apple, 

 called Spalding's Early Seedling. 



Vegetables : Dr. J. C. Howard exhibited two quarts of large and good 

 Lima beans. 



