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VEGETABLES. 



did. Six hills affording twenty-seven pounds. Two 

 pounds were planted by William G. Wyman, Secretary 

 of our Society, on the sixteenth of May, in a drill under 

 the shade of fruit trees, and were dug when unripe 

 while the vines were still fresh and green, for the pur- 

 pose of exhibiting them at our fair. From the two 

 pounds planted fifty-four pounds were obtained. Far- 

 ther experiments will be made to test the productive- 

 ness, value, and especially the table qualities of this 

 European variety of potatoe and its adaptation to our 

 soil and climate. No indications of disease have 

 appeared in any of the samples produced. 



In conclusion, your Committee hope that the depart- 

 ment of vegetables will receive increased attention, and 

 would remind cultivators that on no part of the farm, 

 perhaps, so much as in the garden, is it true, that what 

 is worth doing at all is worth doing well. 



The Committee make the following awards : 



KITCHEN VEGETABLES. 



1st, N. C. Day, Lunenburg, $7,00 



2d, J. M. Sawtelle, Fitchburg, 5,00 



3d, Dennis Fay, Ashby, 3,00 



POTATOES. 



1st, J. P. Hayward, Sterling, 2,00 



2d, E. Bird, Leominster, 1,00 



3d, Nathan Caswell, Fitchburg, ? 50 



MARROW SQUASHES. 



lstj.Benj. F. Proctor, Fitchburg, ] 00 



2d, Lawrin Pratt, Fitchburg, 50 



HUBBARD SQUASHES. 



1st, Charles Brigham, Fitchburg, 1 ? 00 



2d, Jabez Fisher, Fitchburg, ? 50 



