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succession, as required by the Society, and so far as earliness is 

 concerned, they seem to comply with that one of its conditions, 

 ■which requires that the grape, to be entitled to the premium, should 

 ripen in the open air by the middle of September ; but they do not, 

 in the opinion of your committee, possess that other equally essen- 

 tial and perhaps more important requisite of being of a " decidedly 

 superior quality," without which no grape can come within the 

 rule by which your committee are restricted in making their 

 awards. 



In the opinion of Mr. Blood, his seedlings were not ripe so early 

 this season as usual, owing to the backwardness of the Spring, and 

 he thinks also that their quality was injured by the severe drought 

 of the past season ; but making all due allowance for these unfa- 

 vorable circumstances, your committee believe that while Mr. Blood 

 is entitled to the merit of having produced from seed grapes that 

 are a very decided improvement on the native grape of the county, 

 such do not excel, or even equal some already in general cul- 

 tivation, as the Isabella or Diana, to say nothing of some other 

 seedlings of recent origin, not yet so generally known. 



Entertaining these opinions with respect to the grapes of Mr. 

 Blood, and no other competitor having appeared for the premiums 

 oflfered for grapes or other seedHng fruits, the committee on the 

 introduction of new fruits have made no award of the premiums 

 placed by the Society at their disposal. 



JOSEPH S. CABOT, Chairman. 



FAUM IMPLEMENTS. 



The Committee, (consisting of J. W. Proctor, R. P. Waters, S. 

 Raymond, W. Sutton, and E. Brown ; together with W. H. Little^ 

 and A. Thompson, in the places of Sutton and Brown, who were 

 not present,) have attended to the duty with which they were 

 charged, and report : 



That the exhibition of farming implements was much less than it 

 ought to have been, and much less than was expected, considering 



