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VEGETABLES. 



Committee.— Moses G. Lyon, Abel Marshall, Filchburg, — Joseph Fos- 

 ter, Ashby, — J. A. Marshall, Joel Page, Fitchburg. 



Mr. President, and Gentlemen : — 



The service required of your Committee, as understood by 

 them, was simply to examine such vegetable productions as 

 were offered to their notice, and award the bounty of the 

 Society for them, in such manner as they might think most 

 suitable and expedient. Your Committee may well express 

 their gratification at the handsome display spread out for their 

 consideration, — and, as no established premiums were offered 

 by the Society for any of these productions, it seemed not so 

 much necessary to institute a strict comparison of character 

 and quality, as to reward whatever appeared meritorious in 

 character, or new in its variety. In this view, many contri- 

 butions claimed consideration, not only by the specimens 

 offered, but by the fact that they were brought, some of them, 

 from a distance without the stimulus of established premiums. 



