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to keep it, and if many of the present generation were placed 

 in a garden with similar instructions, it might be conducive to 

 their health, as well as be a source of profit. 



Only two gardens were entered for our inspection, one by 

 Dr. T. R. Boutelle, the other by Gen. Moses Wood. The 

 Committee visited them on the 16th of July and found them 

 in fine order, some of the early crops had already been har- 

 vested, such as early peas, radishes, &c. They found potatoes 

 of good size for cooking, also peas, string beans, lettuce, onions, 

 turnips, beets, &c. We visited the gardens again the 3d of 

 September and found in several instances, a second crop grow- 

 ing where the first had been harvested, in one case, a second 

 crop of beets growing upon the same land ; every thing looked 

 prosperous except the weeds, which either did not come up 

 or were carefully removed before the examination of the com- 

 mittee, and the committee award 



To Dr. T. R. Boutelle, the first premium of $5 00 



" Gem Moses Wood, the second premium of 3 00 



ABEL F. ADAMS. 

 For the Committee. 



ORCHARDS. 





Committee. — Jonas A. Marshall, Jabez Fisher, Daniel Messenger, John 

 Prichard, Joseph Pierce, Fitchhurg. [Mr. Messenger was unable to serve on 

 the Committee, from illness.] 



Six Orchards were entered for premium by the following 

 members of the Society, viz : Daniel Works, Enoch Caldwell, 

 Addison Hubbard, Joseph Smith, of Fitchburg, one each, and 

 two by John Brooks, Jr., of Princeton. 



September 22d, 1855. The Committee commenced their 

 labors at Princeton, where they were most kindly received and 

 hospitably entertained, by the Messrs. Brooks, senior and ju- 

 nior. Their excellent farm is situated in the centre of that 

 town, on a swell running about north and south : the orchards 



