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PREMIUMS AND GRATUITIES AT THE WEEKLY EXHIBITIONS. 



To M. P. Wilder, for Plants, &c., at tlie weekly exhibitions, . $11 00 

 To A. Bowditch, for Bouquets, &c., at the same, . . . . 21 00 



To J. Quant, for the same, 5 00 



To J. Nugent, for tlie same, 15 00 



To P. Barnes, for tlie same, 11 00 



To Miss Russell, for the same, 9 00 



To Messrs, Winship, for the same, IG 00 



To W. Kenrick, for the same, 2 00 



To J. A. Kenrick, for the same, 2 00 



To Messrs. Hovey & Co., for the same, 4 00 



To Breck & Co., for the same, 8 00 



To Miss Kenrick, for the same, 5 00 



To J. G Swan, for the same, 6 00 



To J. Hovey, for the same, • . . 9 00 



To E. Barnes, for the same, 3 00 



To Miss Barnes, for the same, 5 00 



To T. Needliam, for the same, 5 00 



To Mrs. M. Daggett, for the same, 1 00 



To J. W. Brown, for the same, 1 00 



To L. Davenport, for the same, 2 00 



To D. Pierce, for the same, 1 00 



For the Committee : D. Haggerston, Chairman. 



REPORT OF THE COMMITTEE ON FRUITS, 



AWARDING PREMIUMS FOR 1849. 



The Committee on Fruits now submit the following report of their award 

 of the prizes offered by the Society for the several varieties of Fruits, for 

 the year 1849. The unpropitious character of the past season for the pro- 

 duction of several varieties of Fruits, — particularly apples and pears, — has 

 had the effect of seriously diminishing the number of competitors for prizes, 

 of specimens and varieties exhibited, and, thereby, of somewhat duninishing 

 the interest of the weekly exhibitions of the Society in this department. But 

 these effects, naturally to be expected, of causes beyond the control of hu- 

 man agency, will be, it is believed, temporary in their nature, and are in no 

 way discouraging to the efforts or zeal of cultivators ; and this diminution in 

 number of competitors, or specimens, indicates no permanent want of inter- 

 est in the Society, or belief in its beneficial influences. This does not seem 

 a fitting time or place to enter upon a consideration of the causes that have 

 been attended with such disastrous consequences ; but a reference to the 

 fact appeared necessary, as explanatory of the circumstance that some of 

 the prizes offered had not been awarded, and because that the absence of 

 such allusion might have possibly induced the opinion that this was an indi- 

 cation of diminished zeal in cultivation, or of interest in the objects of the 

 Society. 

 Notwithstanding tlie fact that the pears exhibited, the past season, have 



