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is not exactly as it sbould be, — the largest vegetables are by no means the best. 

 Fair, beautiful specimens of medium, or just above medium size, are what we 

 hope to see also, in addition to those of monstrous growth. 



We are sorry to notice so few pure varieties of squashes and melons at our 

 Exhibitions and in the market. These vegetables have such strong amalga- 

 mating propensities, that in order to retain a particular kind from deteriorating, 

 it is absolutely necessary to cultivate it at a very considerable distance from 

 other kinds of the same family. 



We have got through with the list but the end is not yet. A word more 

 ought to be said. Those who have read the former Reports of the Fruit 

 department of the exhibitors, probably have little idea of the amount of time 

 and labor that it cost the Avriters to prepare them. And even this present Re- 

 port, now spreading over the twenty-ninth page of letter paper, is not the work 

 of an hour or day. 



Our oljligations ai'e due to Messrs. John Milton Earle, Samuel H. Colton, and 

 William C. Capron, for the assistance which they kindly rendered us in collect- 

 ino- the materials for this long account of the leading department of the Exhibi- 

 tion. To the two classes of active members in the Society — those who do the 

 work, and those who complain of it when done, — and to the public generally, 

 we respectfully submit the Report. 



GEORGE JAQUES. 



