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Abronia Umbellata is a California flower, with a low running 

 habit, in this quality and in the form of its flowers bearing a 

 close resemblance to the verbena. It has a very delicate and 

 delicious perfume, and being in its glory in the hottest and 

 dryest of weather, when most of the other flowers of the 

 garden are panting out a sickly life, it fills a place of its own. 



Sweet Alyssum is unsurpassed among flowers for a wonder- 

 ful vitality. Lengthening its flowering stem, it carries blossoms 

 through the entire season ; if a severe drought brings it to 

 look in a way that would mean death in almost any other 

 flower, be assured that as soon as rain falls it will revive and 

 grow with its old vigor. 



Tiiree of the varieties need some looking after at seed time, 

 viz. : Petunia, Portulacca and Hibiscus, lest in the following 

 season a numberless progeny demonstrate the definition of 

 a weed, viz.: " a plant out of place," for with the exception 

 of the always to-be-excepted Ground Cherry, {Alkekengi), 

 these, if allowed to seed themselves freely, may make the 

 worst weeds of the garden. 



J. J. H. Gregory, for the Committee. 



VEGETABLES. 



The Committee award as follows : — 



To Perley Johnson, Boxford, best early B. T. Beet; Moses 

 B. Abbott, Long 0. Carrot ; M. T. Batchelder, Peabody, Short 

 H. do.; J. D. W. French, North Andovcr, Mangolds; H. A. 

 Stiles, Middleton, Flat Turnips ; M. S. Jenkins, North Ando- 

 ver, Ruta Baga ; Albert Emerson, Haverhill, Parsnips ; 

 Charles A. Anderson, Boxford, Danvers Onions ; W. W. 

 Perkins, Newbury, Red do.; Moses B. Abbott, Savoy Cabbage; 

 Chester Kilham, Fottler do.; M. P. Batchelder, Peabody, Fiat 

 Onion ; J. D. W. French, North Andover. Stone Mason Cab- 

 bage; George K. Pierce, West Newbury, Mammoth do.; 

 Moses B. Abbott, Red do.; Moses B. Abbott, Cauliflowers; 

 Samuel Beattie, Bradford, Celery ; Samuel Longfellow, Grove- 



