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REPORT ON FRUITS. 



Apples. 



First premium, Harris's Treatise, to Frederic Clapp, of Dor- 

 chester. 



Second premium, $4, to A. D. Weld, West Roxburj. 



Third premium, $B, to E. Polleys, East Walpole. 



Fourth premium, $2, to Lucas Pond, Wrentham. 



For the best single dish — First premium, $2, to H. Bigelow, 

 Dover, " Hubbardston Nonsuch." 



Second premium, $1, to Frederic Clapp, Dorchester, " Graven- 

 stein." 



Pears. 



First premium, silver cup, to Samuel Gilbert, Jr., Dorchester. 

 Second premium, $4, to Frederic Clapp,, Dorchester. 

 Third premium, $3, to Charles A. Hewins, West Roxbury. ■ 

 Fourth premium, $2, to A. D. Weld, West Roxbury. 

 For the best single dish — First premium, $2, to R. S. Allen, 

 Brookline, " Flemish Beauty." 



Second premium, $1, to Charles Marsh, Quincy, " Seckel." 



Peaches. 

 First premium, $3, to John York, West Roxbury. 



Foreign Grapes. 



First premium, $4, to Royal W. Turner, Randolph. 

 Second premium, $3, to Albert Crosby, West Roxbury. 



Native G-rapes. 



First premium, $3, to Charles A. Hewins, W^est Roxbury. 

 Second premium, $2, to J. W. Talbot, South Dedham. 

 Third premium, $1, to J. M. Merrick, Jr., Walpole. 



Crajiben'ies. 



First premium, $3, to N. Longfellow, Needham. 



Second premium, $2, to Hannah R. McLitosh, East Needham. 



Third premium, $1, to John W. Kingsbury, Franklin. 



Hon. M. P. Wilder, the honored President of the Society, 

 whose absence was the source of much regret, was represented by 

 the rich contributions of his garden, he having on exhibition no less 

 than 112 varieties of pears, which, in accordance with his usual cus- 

 tom and instructions, were not entered to compete for premiums. 



There were fine displays of apples from E. Stone, Dedham ; Wm. 

 Lyon, Needham, and Mrs. McLitosh, Needham ; — of pears, from 

 G. W. Palmer, Fairmount ; Charles Pierce and J. H. Adams, 

 Milton ; Lincoln llutchins, Moses Boyd and Eliphalet Stone, 



