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mechanics for inofenuity and skill, as they have ever been acknowledged to be 

 the first among horticulturists in their passionate taste for flowers. And we 

 may well thank llicni for their other teachings, — that honest industry is the surest 

 path to prosperity, — that idleness is criminal, and that the sunny hours of life 

 are the time in which to prepare for the certain approach of old age and the 

 unknown future beyond 



J. C. Mason, — Pears : three plates, Isabella Grapes. 



E. & L. Nelson', Upton, — Apples and Clingstone Peaches. 



S. Smith, — Seedling Peaches. 



C. W. FoRBUSH, Grafton, — Apples : fourteen varieties ; Pears : Marie 

 Louise (fine) and two others. 



Samuel Wood, Grafton, — Nameless Pears. 



Charles Hadwen, — Apples: Leland's Pippin; (sometimes called N. Y. 

 Spice. This is one of the handsomest apples we 'ever saw ; color, on the shady 

 side, a greenish 3-ellow ground mottled with crimson stripes ; on the sunny side, 

 becoming a dark crimson. Size and form not very difiFerent from the Baldwin. 

 The flavor is also most excellent, and a tree of this variety deserves a place in 

 the smallest collection. It is in eating from the first of October to winter.) 

 Mr. H. also exhibited four other varieties of apples , Pears : Nameless ; Peach- 

 es : Seedlings. 



Luke Brummet, Leicester, — Six varieties of Apples. 



Joseph Sargent, Leicester, — Pears of an old variety with the fancy name 

 of Gen. Zack Taylor. This way of naming fruit is of no benefit to any one, 

 and always troublesome to the Committee, who make the report. 



Hon. Isaac Davis, — Apples : Baldwin and Double Flowering ; three plates 

 Pears; Quinces: Orange and Pearshaped. Note. — Some distinguished culti- 

 vators are beginning to question whether the Orange and Pear Quince are not 

 after all one and the same thing. Nectarines : Yucatan Chestnuts. 



Dr. Chandler of the S. L. Hospital, — Apples in such a condition that no 

 medical skill could improve them. 



J. K. L. PiCKFORD, — Apples : two plateS. 



Charles Paine, — ^three Nameless varieties of Pears ; Peaches : Heath ; 

 Portugal Quince. 



Wm. T. Merrifield,— -Quinces. 



Charles Thurber, — Bartlett Pears. 



Daniel P. Tennet, Sutton, — Apples of seventeen varieties. 



Calvin Barker, Millbury, — Clingstone Peaches. 



Charles Hale, Millbury, — A splendid silver basket of Sw^et Water Grapes, 

 also. Black Hamburg Grapes, cultivated under glass. 



Akthony Chase, — Four plates of Pears ; Quinces. 



David P. Harrington, Millbury, — Apples : seven varieties ; Peaches : 

 Seedling. 



Booth Bottomly, Leicester, — Apples : Bellflowers and Seedling ; Pears : 

 six varieties ; Grapes : Isabella. 



John Hammond, — Six plates Apples ; Seckel Pears. 



