76 ON FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 



ON FRUITS AND VEGETABLES. 



The Committee on Fruits and Vegetables would 

 respectfully Report : 



That the show of Fruits and Vegetables was im- 

 posing and highly creditable to the contributors ; but 

 owing to some mistake or neglect in not finding a 

 convenient room to arrange them in a suitable man- 

 ner, your committee found it extremely difficult to 

 make a proper exhibition, and consequently visiters; 

 as well as members of the Society, were disappointed 

 in not being able to examine them. Your commit- 

 tee, however, trust that in future they shall not be 

 obliged to arrange their articles in different build- 

 ings, as they were at Georgetown, which prevent- 

 ed their making such a report as they would have 

 wished. 



The exhibition of Apples was uncommonly good ; 

 among them were the Cloth of Gold or Drap d'or, 

 Pickman Pippen, and seven other varieties. Seckel, 

 Autumn Bergamot, Pound, and Iron Pears. Heath, 

 Lemon, and an unnamed variety of Peaches. Por- 

 tugal and Orange Quinces, from Andrew Dodge, 

 Wenham. Osgood's Favorite, Mammoth Pippen, and 

 five other varieties of Apples, from B. G. Metcalf, 

 Salem. Monstrous Pippen (large and fine), Presi- 

 dent, and Boxford Stump Apple, from Peabody Rus- 

 sell, Boxford. Yellow Sweeting, Skinless (fine), and 

 Beef-steak Apples, native Fox Grape, Williams's 

 Bon Chretien or Bartlett Pears ; these last were un- 

 commonly fine, as were those from the same source 

 last season, from Moses French, East Salisbury. 



