ON FRUITS AND FLOAVERS. 71 



and Mr. Riifus Lothrop. The field was planted with 

 corn last season, applying about eight cords of barn-yard 

 manure ; this season I spread on about four cords of 

 barn-yard manure. I ploughed it the sixth of May and 

 sowed it the tenth of May. I sowed four bushels on the 

 lot ; when my oats were got in they were very dry, and 

 those that saw them thought there were as many shelled 

 out on the ground as were sowed, for they came up very 

 thick, and made good fall ked. 



Yours respectfully, 



WM. WILLIAMS. 

 Rowleij, Dec. 16, 1841. 



ON FRUITS, VEGETABLES, AND FLOWERS. 



The exhibition of fruits and vegetables to-day was 

 highly gratifying to your Committee, as it evidently 

 showed an increasing interest in this department of culti- 

 vation. The agricultural and horticultural exhibitions of 

 the present day may be made as useful in our country as 

 they have been in Europe. Out in order to render them 

 of the greatest possible value, there should always ac- 

 company the specimens sent, (when it is known,) the 

 method of culture, soil, &c. &c. The articles, with the 

 names of the contributors, are placed in the order in 

 which they were sent. 



A basket of Rose Chasselas, Sweet Water, and Black 

 Hamburgh grapes, green-house culture, and green 

 melons, open ground culture, from P. Dodge, Salem. 



Four kinds of apples and two of pears, from Erastus 

 Ware, Salem. 



Native Rareripes, from Joseph Savory, East Bradford. 



St. Michael pears, and monstrous Bell-flower apples, 

 from Daniel Adams, 3d, Newbury. 



Large native peaches, grapes, and apples, from Josiah 

 Newhall, Lynnfield. 



