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A. D. Weld, West Roxbury, second premium, $4. 

 Joseph H. Billings, West Roxbury, third do. $3. 



For the best single dish of Apples — F. Clapp, Dorchester, first 

 premium, Barry's Fruit Garden. 



A. P. Knapp, Needham, second do., Cole's Fruit Garden. 



For the best dish Pears — Frederick Clapp, Dorchester, first 

 premium, Barry's Fruit Garden. 



J. Cartwright, Needham, second do., Cole's Fruit Garden. 



Hon. M. P. Wilder exhibited 105 varieties of pears, for exhi- 

 bition only. 



Foreign Grapes. 



For the best exhibition, R. W. Turner, Randolph, first pre- 

 mium, $4. 



H. S. Clark, Walpole, second do., $3. 



Native Grapes. 



For the best collection, B. C. Vose, Milton, first premium, 

 J. S. Eldridge, Canton, second do., $2. 



STEPHEN M. WELD, Chairman. 

 West Roxbury, Sept. 29, 1865. 



REPORT ON FLOWERS. 



" Many and various are the pleasures and advantages to be 

 attained from the study of plants, and the cultivation of them in 

 the flower garden. The first leads to the knowledge of one of 

 the most beautiful and instructive branches of science ; and the 

 second furnishes an employment well calculated to lead the con- 

 templative mind, in the language of Shakespeare, to 



* Find tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 

 Sermons in stones, and good in every thing.' 



The cultivation of the flower garden must be considered as an 

 amusement extremely well calculated to employ our leisure hours, 

 being one of the most innocent, as well as one of the most salutary 

 employments that can excite the attention of the human mind." 



Our exhibition of flowers, like every other part of the Fair, 

 showed the eff'ects of the drought which marked the latter portion 

 of the summer. But we may safely say that it was very good, 

 and pleased the eyes and gratified the tastes of an immense num- 

 ber of visitors. It is true that many of our people feel little or 

 no interest in horticulture. They go through the world insensible 

 to the beauty w^ith which the Creator has clothed it. They pass 

 by unnoticed, or carelessly trample upon graceful and delicate 



