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By Dr. H. Wendell, eight varieties of apples, viz : — Swaar, Gravenstein, 

 Vandervere, Yellow Newtown Pippin, Golden Pippin, Mela di Carla, Win 

 ter Sweet, and Granawinkle ; also, Inconnue Van Mons pears. 



By Jolin S. Gould, Fall Pippin, Yellow Newtown Pippin, Green Newtown 

 Pippin, and Roman Stem. 



By S. Morgan, Pine Grove, nine varieties of apples, viz : — Red Gilli- 

 flower, Fall Pippin, Esopus Spitzenberg, Dominie, Golden Sweeting, Pen- 

 nock, Nonsuch, Poughkeepsie Russet, and Yellow Belleflower. 



By J. Gary, Isabella grapes, as fresh as when first gatliered ; have been 

 packed in cotton, in jars, and excluded from the air. 



By B. P. Johnson, a large collection of standard varieties from Messrs. 

 R. G. Pardee, J. Campbell, R. H. Brown, J. Park, F. W. Lay, H. Foster, 

 W. Rogers, Dennis Clark, and Robert Patterson, of Wayne and Monroe 

 counties, and also a number of varieties from J. C. Hubbard, of Troy, 

 Michigan, and L. P. Grosvenor, of Pomfret, Connecticut, all of whom will 

 please accept the thanks of the Society. This display of fruits, grown at a 

 distance from our immediate vicinity, gave increased interest to the exhibi- 

 tion, as it enabled the members of the Society to compare the fruits of their 

 own orchards and gardens with those from abroad. 



PREMIUMS. 



Apples. — For the best and most extensive collection, to E. P. 



Prentice, . . . . . . . $5 00 



For the second best collection, to S. Morgan, . . 3 00 



Pears. — For the best one variety exhibited, Inconnue Van 



Mons, by Dr. Herman Wendell, . . . . 2 00 



And a discretionary premium for Isabella grapes, to Jos, Gary, . 1 00 



V. P. Douw, Chairman. 

 Flowers. — Owing to the cold weather, (5° below 0,) the competition was 

 limited. Mr. L. Menand, J. Wilson, J. Rathbone, and V. P. Douw, Esq., 

 were the principal exhibitors. Miss Eliza Carey exliibited an Herbareum, 

 composed of more than one hundred dried specimens of indigenous flowers, 

 which deserves the highest commendation of the committee, on account of 

 the admirable preservation of the specimens, and their life-like appearance, 

 as well as the manner of their arrangement. Each flower had its botanic 

 description, its botanic name, its vulgar name, and an appropriate quotation 

 indicating its signification in Flora's vocabulary. Also a collection of ma- 

 rine plants, gathered by Miss C. during the last summer, of over fifty speci- 

 mens, arranged in the same manner, to the whole of which the committee 

 award a discretionary premium of $3. 



premiums. 

 For the best display of cut greenhouse flowers, the committee beg leave 

 to combine the first and second premiums, (making it $5,) and dividing it 

 equally between Col. Rathbone and Mr. Menand, as the collections were 

 so equally balanced in merit as to render a different distribution of the 

 prizes unjust to one or the other of the competitors. 



For the best round hand bouquet, to J. Wilson, . . $2 00 



For the best flat hand bouquet, to J. Wilson, . . . 2 00 



