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81.50 First piemlura, to A. Dudley Johnson, Saugus, for 



Dudley's Houghton. 

 il.OO. Gratuity, to Edwin Bates, Lynn, for Louis Bonne. 

 $1.00. Gratuity, to J. M. Teal, Lynn, for Seckel. 

 $1.00. Gratuity, to J. M. Teal, Lynn, for d'Anjou. 

 #1.00. Gratuity, to Moses Rich, Lynn, for Sheldon. 

 $1.00. Gratuity, to P. P. Cotter, Salem, for Bartlett. 

 $1.00. Gratuity, to G. F. Bailey, Peabody, for Bosworth. 

 $1.00. Gratuity, to C. G. Mears, Danvers, for Sou de Con- 

 gress. 

 $1.00. Gratuity, to George Barnaby, Peabody, for Clair- 



geau. 

 $1.00. Gratuity, to Edwin Bates, Lynn, for d'Anjou. 

 $1.00. Gratuity, to H. A. Harrington, Peabody, for Law- 

 rence. 



The committee find that the two collections of pears are 

 so nearly alike that they have decided to divide the two 

 premiums, the first and second between Edwin Bates, of 

 Lynn, and Charles F. Ropes, of Salem, giving to each 

 three dollars. 



P. M. Neal, W. H. B. Currier, Geo. W. Chadwick, W. 

 Burke Little — Committee. 



The Houghton Horticultural Society, of Lynn, has in- 

 troduced to us for the first time a new pear raised from 

 the seed of the Bartlett, by Mr. A. Dudley Johnson, of 

 East Saugus. some ten years since. He has exhibited it 

 several times at the annual exhibitions of the Houghtons, 

 and by them it has been named the Dudley Houghton. 

 The tree is perfectly hard}-, of upright symmetrical growth, 

 having many of the peculiarities of the parent tree, par- 

 ticularly in the color and growth of the new shoots. The 

 size of the fruit is from medium to large, but not so large 

 as the Bartlett. Its form is pyramidical, or pear shape. 



