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RYE BREAD. 



Best Rye Bread, Mrs. I). N. Fuller, Great Barrington, $3 00 



2d do., Mrs. D. Baldwin, New Marlboro, 2 00 



3d do., Mrs. C. S. Joyner, Egremont, 1 00 



GRAHAM BREAD. 



Best Graham Bread, Mrs. M. S. Heath, Stoekbridge, 1 00 



BROWN BREAD. 



Best Brown Bread, Mis. L. J. Wright, Egremont, 

 2d do., Mrs. Charles Winchell, Alford, 

 Sd do., Mrs. F. G. Smith, Egremont, 



BISCUIT. 



Best Biscuit, Mrs. W. Bartholomew, Sheffield, 

 2«1 do., Warren Candee, Sheffield, 

 id do., Mrs. T. F. R. Mercein, Sheffield, 

 4th do., Mrs. H. P. Walker, Great Barrington, 



MAPLE SUGAR. 



Best Maple Sugar, Mrs. A. Twing, Sandisfield, 

 2d do., Mrs. E. J. Wheeler, New Marlboro, 

 3d do., Mrs. N. Palmer, New Marlboro, 



MAPI E SYRUP. 



Best Maple Syrup, Mrs. B. Wheeler, Xew Marlboro, 

 2d do., Miss S. J. Gaylord, New Marlboro, 

 3d do., L. Hulett, Sheffield, 

 -1th do.. Mrs. H. H. Hoadley, Sheffield, 



J. W. Parks, ) 



Mr*. Harvey Roys, £ C 

 Mrs. John Brewer, ) 



FLOWERS. 



In the absence of the Chairman and one of the committee duly appointed by 

 the society, we, the acting committee respectfully submit the following report : 



There was not so large a quantity of flowers on exhibition in the Hall this 

 year as we have sometimes seen. The display of hardy flowers, considering the 

 very early, severe frost, was remarkably tine ; and we must confess our com- 

 bined judgment was put to a severe test, to decide; from the specimens before us, 

 upon the relative merit, expressed in awards, of the commendable zeal and 

 energy of those ladies who raise out-door flowers and of those who cultivate 

 green-house flowers, and bring them here to edify and delight us with their 

 varied beauty and tasteful arrangement, thus gracing the occasion of our an- 

 nual gatherings. 



With the enthusiasm of childhood when hunting the prairies for the earliest, 

 reddest scarlet Painted-Cup or the tallest. Indian Warrior, we roamed from 

 Massachusetts to California in the Floral department, not omitting to visit the 

 tropical orange groves on our way, — pardon our exaggeration, — where we found 

 atree heavily laden with real, ripe, luscious, Oranges, no doubt, but we were 

 forbidden to taste of the fruit, though it looked tempting. 



There were no wild flowers on exhibition as usual, but we happened to hear 

 several young botanists declare their intention to have brought some had not the 

 unseasonable frost prevented the execution of their plans. 



We are unable to say when the cultivation of flowers began, but we believe it 

 was when God placed Adam in the garden of Eden and bade him "dress and 



