houses, &c., were most complete and ample, and comfort and convenience 

 appeared to have been as much consulted and cared for, as ornament and 

 beauty. A grapehouse has also been recently erected. Your Committee 

 noticed here a strawberry, imported by Mr. B. from Ireland, resembling in 

 appearance the Bicton pine, and supposed that it might be that variety. 



On June 25th the garden of Mr. I. Babbitt, of Roxbury, was examined. 

 Mr. Babbitt has a small garden, filled with fruit trees and shrubs, together 

 with many varieties of native grapes, a fruit that appears to have received 

 much of Mr. B.'s attention. Mr. Babbitt has displayed much ingenuity in 

 tools of various kinds, and other mechanical contrivances, and has also 

 manufactured a grafting wax, that is said by those who have used it, to be 

 superior to any yet discovered for that purpose. Mr. Babbitt's garden waa 

 in fine order, and his trees in good condition. 



On August 23d your Committee were at the garden of Mr. John Gordon, 

 and of Messrs. Evers & Bock, at Brighton. Mr. Gordon's garden has been 

 already described in previous reports, and no repetition of this seems 

 now necessary. It exhibited the same evidence of skilful cultivation that 

 has before distinguished it. Messrs. Evers &. Bock have recently come 

 into possession of the place occupied by them, and although much had 

 been done to improve it, they did not consider it in a condition to be exam- 

 ined by the Committee. 



On August 12th your Committee visited the grounds of Hovey & Co., at 

 Cambridge, and on August 23, those of Winship &, Co., at Brighton. Both 

 these establishments are so well known, that any description or account of 

 them by the Committee, seems wholly unnecessary. They are both among 

 the largest commercial gardens in the country, where trees and shrubs, 

 flowers and plants, — both native and exotic, — hardy and tender, are culti- 

 vated for sale, in great profusion and almost endless variety. So far aa 

 your Committee could judge from an examination necessarily, of grounds so 

 extensive, somewhat hurried, yet not careless, both these establishments 

 were in fine order ; the trees and plants healthy and vigorous, skilfully 

 managed and well cultivated. Messrs. Hovey & Co. have a great collec- 

 tion of the different species of fruit trees ; a specimen tree of each variety 

 being cultivated to test the quality of the different sorts ; and in their hot 

 and greenhouses cultivate a great variety of exotic shrubs and plants. 

 Messrs. Winship & Co. cultivate great quantities of the different species 

 of forest and other ornamental trees, as well as of the different kinds of 

 fruits. In this last department very considerable additions have lately been 

 made to their former stock, by the planting out of extensive beds of pear 

 trees. 



On August 30 your Committee examined the grapery of W. C. Strong, 

 Esq., at Brighton. Mr. Strong is among the largest cultivators of the grape 

 in this vicinity ; he having, besides a retarding-house, two houses of about 

 210 feet in length each, devoted to this purpose. At the time of the visit 

 of your Committee, the vines in these spacious houses were covered with 

 an abundant crop of fine fruit, just ripe, well colored, and of excellent qual- 

 ity ; the vines were healthy, and everything about the establishment evi- 



