VEGETABLES. ^d 



fied at the numerous and excellent specimens of garden 

 vegetables exhibited at the late fair of the Worcester 

 North Agricultural Society. That there has been a 

 marked improvement in the quality of garden vege- 

 tables since the formation of this Society cannot be 

 doubted. It is no longer the object of exhibitors to 

 present mammoth specimens, which are usually of an 

 inferior quality, but at this exhibition the vegetables 

 were of a medium size, which are uniformly of a better 

 quality for the table, and of the most approved kinds. 

 Your Committee cannot but make honorable mention 

 of the collection of kitchen vegetables presented by N. 

 C. Day, of Lunenburg, containing twenty-two kinds 

 with fifty-four varieties ; also by Dennis Fay of Ashby, 

 and J. M. Sawtelle and Benjamin Safford of Fitchburg, 

 all of which were highly creditable to the skill of those 

 gentlemen in this department. There were other spec- 

 imens equally good, but none containing so great a 

 variety. 



We learn that C. L. Flint, Esq., Secretary of the State 

 Board of Agriculture, imported at great expense some 

 seed potatoes from Belgium and distributed them 

 gratuitously throughout the State, requesting that they 

 might be carefully experimented with and the results 

 made known to the public at the various exhibitions, 

 and in the published transactions of the Societies. Of 

 the portion of this new acquisition which fell to the 

 share of our Society, five pounds were planted by Abel 

 F. Adams, in forty- four hills, and produced two and a 

 half bushels of good sized, handsome looking potatoes, 

 the quality of which has not yet been tested. Three 

 pounds were planted by J. M. Sawtelle, and yielded 

 about the same quantity that Mr, Adams' five pounds 



