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isfy the committee that the proprietor was justly entitled to any 

 portion of the premium offered. 



The committee cannot close their Report, without referring, 

 in terms of the highest approbation, to the fruit garden, or, more 

 properly, farm of John Gordon, of Brighton, and commending 

 it to the notice of all the fruit-growers in the society, as a model 

 for imitation. Some of the finest specimens of the apple and 

 the peach, which came under our notice, were on his premises ; 

 and his pear and plum trees were the only specimens of these 

 fruits which have been deemed worthy of a premium. 



The committee submit the following, as the result of their 

 best judgment in the distribution of the society's premiums : — 



Farms. 



First premium to George Pierce, of West Cambridge, ^25 CO 

 Second " " Ebenezer Davis, Jr., of Acton, . 20 00 



Third " " Charles Stearns, of Billerica, . 15 00 



Reclaimed Meadows. 



To Jacob B. Farmer, of Concord, 1st premium, . 15 00 



" William Buckminster, of Framingham, 2d do. . 12 00 



" Amasa Sanderson, of Groton, 3d do. . .8 00 



'■'• Elbridge G. Hayden, of Concord, 4th do. . 5 00 



Compost Manures. 



To Ebenezer Richardson, of Pepperell, 1st premium, 10 00 



" Daniel L. Giles, of Lincoln, 2d do., . 5 00 



Fruit Trees. 



For the best apple orchard, first premium to Eben- 

 ezer Richardson, of Pepperell, . . . 15 00 



The second, to Leander Crosby, of Billerica, . 12 00 



The third, a copy of Emerson's Forest Trees, to I. 

 C. Freeman, of Framingham. ... 



For the best peach orchard, the first premium to Joel 



Britton, of Concord, . . . . 10 00 



