44 ESSEX SOCIETY. 



Many kinds which take a high rank in the catalogues, and which 

 can be recommended for a large collection, are not desirable for 

 a small one, owing to their unthrifty or unproductive habits, or 

 variable character ; while there are others, not strictly first-rate 

 in quality, yet so uniformly productive and healthy, that they 

 are not to be neglected in a collection however small. 



For the Committee, 



OTIS JOHNSON. 



