REPORTS OF COMMITTEES. 



FLOWERS. 



The Committee on Assorted Fruits and Flowers 

 report as follows : 



But one dish of Assorted Fruit was on exhibition in 

 the Hall, and the Committee with remarkable unanimity, 

 decided that it was entitled to one of the two premiums 

 offered by the Society. They accordingly awarded it 

 the second, it not being of such excellency as to entitle 

 it to the first. The small display in this department 

 can hardly be accounted for when we consider that this 

 has been a fair fruit year. It would seem desirable 

 that if any sho # \v is made in this direction hereafter, it 

 be on a larger scale. 



The exhibition of Plants in Pots was also small. The 

 number competing for premiums was quite small, and 

 none of them were of superb excellence. It was a 

 matter of regret that there was not a large display of 

 excellent plants; for they' are certainly to be found in 

 abundance in this community. Here, again, the first 

 premium was not awarded. 



Of Cut Flowers there were but few. And but few 

 that were shown had particular merit. The paucity of 

 the exhibition in this department is doubtless attribu- 

 table to the early frosts. The Committee believed, 

 however, that better things could have been done. 



