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ASSOETED FRUITS AND FLOWERS 



GRATUITIES. 



0. Whitney, Jr., $1,00 



Alvah Crocker, 1,00 



Benjamin Safford, ,50 



Ira Holt, ,50 



H. F. Coggshall, ,50 

 No foreign grapes exhibited. 



RODNEY WALLACE, Chairman. 



ASSORTED FRUITS AND FLOWERS. 



The display of flowers were unusually good. Not 

 only was taste displayed in the selection of varieties, 

 but skill in their arrangement into groups and bouquets. 

 We were gratified to see this evidence of increasing 

 refinement in our community. No person who can find 

 pleasure in the cultivation of flowers can be altogether 

 destitute of the finer sensibilities. The same .rule 

 applies, but with stronger force, to the love of the beau- 

 tiful in nature, as to the love of the beautiful in art 

 The ability to perceive and love it necessarily involves 

 a certain development of the finer power sand instincts. 

 Moreover, it is difficult to see how one who loves and 

 cultivates flowers can be irreligious. There is no more 

 convincing and touching evidence of Supreme love 

 than in the floral treasures scattered so lavishly over 

 the earth — each floweret a miracle of living beauty 

 — and proffering to every sense a pure and exquisite 

 pleasure. 



The body, too, as well as the mind, is improved 

 by the love and cultivation of flowers. The early 



