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HORTICULTURE. The annual Horticultural Exhibition 

 opened on Tuesday, Sept. 9, 1879, and closed on Thurs- 

 day evening, Sept. 11. The display was good, the 

 flowers, ferns, pot plants and gladioli being very beautiful. 

 There was -a good show of vegetables and fruits ; of the 

 latter, the pears took the lead in the number of varieties. 

 David Wentzell had some handsome Gravenstein apples 

 and other fruit, also a good display of vegetables ; F. H. 

 Appleton a fine collection of the products of "Broadfield's 

 Farm ; " the Plummer Farm School some giant Ruta-bagas 

 Mangel-wurtzel, and Stone Mason cabbage, etc. ; R. B. 

 Giflbrd and Samuel W. Pease some mammoth early Craw- 

 ford peaches ; Henry Poor some fine clusters of grapes, 

 Hamburgs and Black Prince ; T. Putnam Symonds a 

 good cluster of Hartford Prolifics ; Mr. Wilkinson, figs. 



The centre of the hall was occupied with potted ferns 

 and plants from the greenhouses of John Robinson and 

 H. W. Putnam ; Charles A. Putnam a beautiful pyramid 

 of gladioli, at the head of the hall a handsome collection 

 of asters, coleus, and pinks. 



Among the exhibitors were the following : Charles A. 

 Ropes, seventy-five dishes of fruit, George Pettingell, 

 forty-nine dishes, Aaron Nourse, thirteen, David Weut- 

 zell, twenty. Fruit from George Bowker, E. H. Noble, 

 John Osborne, T. P. Symonds, Miss S. Ropes, Wm. H. 

 Dennett, Wm. Mack, George D. Putnam, Ezekiel Goss, 

 Miss E. P. Richardson, William L. Welch, Joseph 

 Symonds, James P. Cook, Mrs. M. Wilkinson, J. W. 

 Barton, George D. Glover, Mrs. Wm. F. Gardner, C. 

 A. Buxtou, John W. Grant. Cut flowers from Mrs. C. 

 A. Ropes, H. W. Putnam, Mrs. C. H. Miller, Mrs. W. 

 F. Gardner, Mrs. E. D. Kimball, Mrs. J. P. Cook, 

 Joseph Symouds, Wm. H. WTiipple, B. D. Hill. Ferns 

 from John Robinson. Pot plants from John Robinson, 



