79 



has doubled the Eose and the Chrysanthemum to make them 

 feed more vigorously the hungry life within. Surely not ; let 

 the Farmer cultivate flowers ; let him raise the very best he 

 can, and show them for his own credit, and to excite a gen- 

 erous competition in the hearts of his brethren. They will be 

 like a red cheek on the sunny side of his own mellow harvest ; 

 like the bloom on the features of his own home-fed daughters, 

 which enhances and testifies their worth, though it may not 

 cause it. In their mute eloquence, they shall speak to him of 

 a life higher than the mere flitting present ; for his full barn 

 and bin only suggest the stern fact of ever-returning hunger, 

 but these can minister to a want that bread cannot satisfy, 

 hinting still at the painless experience of an immortal rest, 

 from which they seem like lovely premonitors, always mur- 

 muring in the ear of him who notes them. 



Oh pray believe that angels, from those blue dominions 



Brought us in their white laps down, twixt their purple pinions." 



A succinct statement of the gratuities awarded by your 

 Committee will close this report : — 



I. CUT FLOWERS. 



No. 112. 237 Dahlias— 80 varieties. J. C. Hoadley, Law- 

 rence. 



This was, apparently, the same collection that has led our 

 exhibition so many years, hitherto, we believe, hailing from the 

 premises of C. S. Storrow, Esq. The change in name we 

 know nothing about ; the flowers were remarkably perfect in 

 form, and in color, possessed great delicacy, but not so much 

 of strength or variety. Eather the best entry, on the. 

 whole. $4 



No. 68. 280 Dahlias. Bosson & Glover, Salem. 



A very fine stand, and remarkably well shown. We found 

 a good many centered and imperfect blooms, but the range of 



