526 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. 



Fruits tested by the Committee. Oliphant (?) apple, from J. Lovett, large, 

 tender, and fine quality. Collins' seedling pears, melting, juicy and fine. 

 Reine Claude de Bavay plums, from M. P. Wilder, sweet and very fine. 



Oct. 12. — Exhibited. — Feuits : From Henry Vandine, pears, Buffum, 

 finely colored, Flemish Beauty, Marie Louise, Seckel ; plums, Coe's Golden 

 Drop. A. Emerson, apples. Duchess of Oldenburgh, and one dish for a 

 name. J. Stickney, peaches in variety. G. Merriam, peaches, Crawford's 

 Late, Bergen's Yellow. A. Denton, pears, Beurre d'Amanlis. J. J. Low, 

 pears, Beurre Diel, Beurr6 Bosc. C. E. Grant, peaches in variety ; quinces, 

 fine ; grapes, Isabella. A. W. Stetson, grapes, Isabella. W. C. Strong, 

 grapes. Black Hamburgh, Gascoigne, Black Muscat (?), Rose Chasselas, 

 Grizzly Frontignan, St. Peters, Zinfindal. E. Wight, apples. Northern 

 Spy. This was the first exhibition of this apple grown here; the specimens 

 from a graft four years old. E. Jackson, pears, Louise Bonne of Jersey. J. 

 Dane, pears, Beurre Diel, Napoleon, Louise Bonne of Jersey, and Beurre Por- 

 tugal (?). O. Johnson, apples, of a large size, good appearance, and presumed 

 to be a seedling. [Probably the Fall Jenneting.] B. D. Emerson, grapes, 

 Sweet Water, Black Hamburgh. Ezra Cleaves, plum, Coe's Golden Drop ; 

 grapes. Sweet Water, Black Hamburgh. J. F. Allen, pears, Seckel ; 

 grapes. Bishop, fine, Wilmot's new Black Hamburgh, Golden Chasselas, De 

 Candolle. J. S. Sleeper, pears, DL\, fine, Louise Bonne of Jersey. L. Bell, 

 apples, Seaver's Sweet. F. King, peaches and plums. Josiah Lovett, pears, 

 Paradise of Automne, fine. 



Oct. 19. — Exhibited. — Fruits : From F, Tudor, very fine Duchess of 

 Angouleme and Swan's Orange pears, ftilly mature. H. Vandine, Flemish 

 Beauty, Buffum, Seckel, Pitt's Prolific and Marie Louise, very fine ; also, 

 Blue Imperatrice plums. Miller's Burgundy grapes, and Orange and Portu- 

 gal quinces. D. Beal, Black Hamburgh grapes, open culture, good size, 

 but not fully mature. C. Weston, Plymouth, Glout Morceau, Henry IV, 

 Dix and Pitt's Prolific ; also, English Russet and Helton's Sweeting apples. 

 J. Washburn, Marie Louise, Henry IV, and Pitt's Prolific pears ; also, Por- 

 tugal, Orange, and Seedling quinces. J. F. Allen, one Buerre Bosc pear, 

 weigliing 12^ ounces. C. E. Grant, good Isabella grapes. E. Cleaves, 

 Beurre de Capiauraont pears. C. H. P. Plympton, White Doyenne pears. 

 F. Dana, very fine Duchess of Angouleme, Beurre Diel, Winter Nelis and 

 Monarch pears, and Orange quinces. J. S. Sleeper, Catillac pears and 

 Hubbardston Nonsuch apples. E. Smith, fine Easter Beurre pears. E. 

 Cheever, Coe's Golden Drop plums. O. N. Towne, Autumn Bergamot and 

 Lawrence pears. S. Downer, Jr., Belle Lucrative pears. B. Guild, St. 

 Germain and White Doyenne pears. M. P. Wilder, Frederica Bremer pears, 

 from J. C. Hastings, Clinton, N. Y. ; and Sheldon pears, from Clyde, Wayne 

 Co., N. Y. A. Emerson, Duchess of Oldenburgh apples. Fruits for name, 

 from J. H. Eastburn, J. J. Low and others. 



Fruits tested by tlie Committee : Swan's orange, from F. Tudor and Hovey 

 & Co., proved unusually high flavored. Beurr6 Sprin, from J. Lovett, 

 fine flavor. Grapes, from N. Longworth, among them a seedling, which, if 

 it ripens early, may prove a desirable variety. 



