106 ON FRUIT TREES. 



ver, as also the bearing fig tree of Doct. Sanborn, were 

 fery handsome. 



Your Committee have awarded the following gratui- 

 ties. Upon Fruits : 



To Joseph How, Nath'l Swift, and C. W. Hartwell, 

 ^2,00 each. 



To Professor Emerson, George W. Sawyer, Rev. 

 Mr. Jackson, Moses Pettingel, Andrew Dodge, J. M. 

 Ives, K. N. Easton, Wm. Allen, Moses Abbot, Doct. 

 Clark, Peabody Russell, ^^1,00 each. 



To J. S. Holt, and Clark and Millet, 30 cts. each. 



Upon Flowers : 



To John Marland and Doct. Sanborn, y^2,00 each; 

 N. A. Prentiss, Miss Phelps, and D Parker, $;1,00 each. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



for the Committee, 



J. M. IVES. 



ON FRUIT TREES. 



The Committee on Fruit Trees respectfully Report, 

 That there have been but two entries made for the 

 award of the Society, which, upon examination, were 

 found to come within the conditions upon which premi- 

 ums are offered. 



These were made, the one by Allen W. Dodge, Esq., 

 of Hamilton, the other by Mr. Moody Ordway, of West 

 Newbury. Mr. Dodge's nursery consists of more than 

 500 inoculated and grafted apple trees, of one or two 

 years from the bud. Mr. Ordway's, of a much larger 

 number, including his pear, plum, and peach trees, of 

 the same description. Both of these nurseries are in a 

 good, nourishing, and healthy condition; have been well 

 trimmed, and otherwise well cultivated. Comparing 

 the nursery of Mr. Dodge with that of Mr. Ordway, we 

 are not able to discover any such marked difference, ex- 

 cepting as to numbers, as would have made it easy to 

 determine which should have the preference. And we 



