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Your Committee have not thought it their duty, or the best 

 method of promoting the objects of this Society, to encourage 

 by their premiums the growth of merely mammoth specimens, 

 especially since most vegetables of that description are really 

 less desirable and less valuable for use than well grown speci- 

 mens of medium size and of a vigorous and natural growth. 

 It is well understood to be an easy matter io force the growth 

 of vegetables as well as of plants, and we have felt it our 

 duty to award the funds appropriated by the Society, for 

 specimens of fair and smooth exterior and solid character, 

 grown in the ordinary manner, and the results of judicious 

 cultivation, rather than for merely large specimens, nothing 

 being known of the manner of cultivation or of the quantity 

 and quality of the whole crop compared with the expense of 

 raising it. 



Among other things deserving special remark, your Com- 

 mittee believe the exhibition of potatoes and squashes, which 

 are perhaps, the most important of the products of the gar- 

 den, to be remarkably good, whether we consider the variety 

 or the quality of the specimens. We have rarely seen pota- 

 toes of better appearance, — and this too, notwithstanding the 

 peculiarly unfavorable nature of the season for their produc- 

 tion and growth. 



We recommend to award the following premiums : 

 Walter Hey wood, ten marrow squashes, $1 00 



Lawrin Pratt, six do do 1 00 



Jabez Fisher, four do do 75 



Joshua T. Everett, of Princeton, four marrow and 



four butter squashes, 50 



Benjamin Snow, Jr., ten marrow squashas, 50 



Jonas A. Marshall, three crookneck squashes, 75 



do do two acorn squashes, 25 



Jesse Lyon, one large crookneck squash, raised in 1853, 25 

 Edward P. Downe, ten custard squashes, 50 



Hosea Greene, marrow squashes, 25 



Alvah Crocker, do do 25 



