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©ration. The Premium offered by the Society Is a liberal one, 

 and its award is a matter of moment, not to the Society, and 

 competitor only, but the public — because such award gives the 

 assurance and pledge of the Society, that the Fruit, to which it 

 is made, is worthy of an extended cultivation, a warrant that 

 should not as your committee think, be given until authorized by 

 such repeated examinations, as will greatly tend to prevent the 

 commission of error. 



For these reasons, your committee, thinking that they have 

 not had sufficient opportunities of testing them, to feel certain 

 that they fully answer the conditions required by the Society, 

 while entertaining a very favorable opinion of their merits, have 

 refrained from awarding Premiums at this time, to Mr. Blood^s 

 grapes, and recommend to the trustees the with-holding of such, 

 until by further trials, iheir claims shall be more clearly estab- 

 lished. 



Joseph S. Cabot, Chairman. 



FLOWERS. 



TTie Committee on Flowers award the following Premiums and 

 Gratuities, viz : 



To George J. Thornton, Andover, for the display of Bo- 

 quets, large quantities of cut flowers, and Green Hotise 

 Plants, the first Premium of, !^6 00 



To Charles J. Storrow, By Edward Flynn, Lawrence, for 

 very fine display of Dahlias, and variety of Boquets, 

 second ^Premium, ^5 00 



To Henry K. Oliver, by John Hart, of Lawrence, for fine 

 display [of Dahlias, and fine lot of Balsams, third Pre- 

 mium, §'3 00 



To John C. Hoadley, by John Sullivan, of Lawrence, for 

 fine display of Dahlias, fourth Premium, ^'2 00 



