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CrERMAN AsTERS. — The following premiums were awarded: — 



For the best display of Asters, a premium of $2 to Hovey & Co. 



For the second best display of Asters, a premium of #1 to S. R. Johnson. 



Adjourned two weeks. 



Exhibited. — Flowers : The President sent a fine plant of the Lilium 

 (speciosum, one of the new varieties of tlie splendid Japan lilies, recently 

 introduced. H. W. Button and J. Stickney exhibited a great variety of 

 dahlias. They were tiie only contributors of this flower, most of the 

 plants in the vicinity of the city being cut off by the recent severe frost. 



Fruits: By A. D. Weld, Brown Beurre, Pope's Russet, Marie Louise, 

 Passe Colmar and Easter Beurre pears. Josiah Lovett, Flemish Beauty, 

 Tery fine ; Belle Angevine, and Duchesse d'Angouleme pears. B. J. 

 Newhall, a variety of apples, including Danvers Winter Sweet, Hubbards- 

 ton Nonsuch, Baldwin, Fall Harvey, Golden Pippin, and Kilham Hill ; 

 Lewis and Bezi Vaet pears, and Spanish filberts. Ralph Crocker, very 

 splendid specimens of the following pears — Fortun6e, Duchesse d'Angou- 

 leme, Easter Beurre, Belle et Bonne, Beurre Diel, Brown Beurre, Napo- 

 leon, Louise Bonne de Jersey ; also, Sweetwater grapes. Wni. Buck- 

 minster, Pound Sweet apples and Orange quinces, grown by W. Puffer, 

 Monson; they were remarkably large specimens. Minot' pears, from 

 Mrs. Russell, Milton Hill. J. S. Sleeper, Dix and Belle et Bonne pears, 

 and Rhode Island Greening apples. Fine quinces from W. G. Lewis. 

 John A. Kenrick exhibited twelve Orange quinces, which weighed 8 lbs. 

 9 oz. and were beautiful. Charles White, Northbridge, sent nine dishes 

 of seedling apples. John Owen, Green Gage plums. St. Michael pears, 

 from George Walsh. H. Vandine, very large and fine Coe's Golden 

 Drop plums, Marie Louise and St. Michael pears. S. Walker, Flemish 

 Beauty, very handsome, Louise Bonne de Jersey, and St. Michael pears. 

 Pomegranates, from T. Motley. 



Vegetables: Sweet potatoes, very fine brocoli, cauliflowers and Lizard 

 beans, grown by J. Lovett. Good Lizard beans, by John Kenrick. 



October 12th. — Exhibited. Flowers : The display to-day was princi- 

 pally made by our city amateurs, whose gardens have not suffered by the 

 recent severe frost, which has cut off the flowers so generally in the vi- 

 cinity. Mr. J. Stickney exhibited upwards of one hundred fine dahlia 

 blooms, — among them were most excellent flowers of Essex Triumph, 

 Oakley's Surprise and Dodd's Prince of Wales. H. W. Dutton made a 

 fine display of about sixty-five blooms. A few bouquets only were to be 

 seen. A good plant of Cactus Jenkinsonia, in flower, was from Mr. War- 

 ren's garden, and some bouquets from W. Kenrick. 



Fruit: A collection of pears was sent for exhibition by S. G. Perkins, 

 Esq. ; the specimens were large and beautiful ; the following Avere the 

 kinds as marked by Mr. Perkins, viz.: Beurre Magnifique, Roi Guil- 

 laume, Beurre Incomparable, Sieulle, Beurre d'Amalis, Great Unknown, 

 Beurre Diel, Josephine, Roi de Wurtemburg, St. Germain Panachee, 

 Mons. le Cure, St. Germain, Chaumontel, Beurre d'Hiver, Louise Bonne 

 ■of Jersey, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Marie Louise, Van Mons Leon le 

 Clerc, Sylvanche Verte, Easter Beurre, Nouvelle Bossouk, Passe Col- 

 mar, Beurrt'i Bronzii, Dix, St. Michael and Catillac. The specimens were 

 very fine, but there is no doubt that five or six of those shown under dif- 

 ferent names, were the Beurr6 Diel. Mr. John Owen exhibited a box of 

 CJreen Gage plums, being the sixty-seventh box, containing a quart each. 



