70 



Best twelve Dahlias, Geo. L. Davis, North Andover, $1 



" and largest display from one individual, Edward 



Flynn, Lawrence, $2 



Three of the Committee award to B. R. Downs of Brad- 

 ford, as a gratuity for his Century Plant, (35 years 

 old,) $3 



Floral display, Mrs. Doct. Tracy, Andover, a gratuity, $1 



Dish of Quilled Asters, W. H. Perrin, West Andover, 



a gratuity, $1 



Basket of Flowers, Mrs. H. P. Chandler, a gratuity, 50 cts. 



B. R DOWNS, ) 



JOHN PRESTON, i Committee. 



WM. L. WESTON, ) 



ROOT CROPS. 



The Committee on Root Crops would report : ■ 

 The attention bestowed upon the cultivation of root crops 

 and vegetables in the county during the last season, has been 

 somewhat modified by the difficulty experienced in obtaining 

 that kind of labor which is adapted to them. Our farmers 

 have long since abandoned all doubts with regard to their profit, 

 and the benefit which they confer upon the animals fed upon 

 them. During the last few years they have been very gener- 

 ally introduced into every section of the county ; not perhaps 

 so largely as we could have wished, but extensively enough to 

 indicate an increasing appreciation of their value. The onion 

 crop of Essex County has become one of the well known 

 proofs, of the pi'ofit of judicious and skillful cultivation. The 

 carrot crop has become in some regions one of the staple pro- 

 ducts of the farm and a very considerable article of merchan- 



