»ery large. 



From Geo. Newhall, Dorchester; Tomatoes. 



From B. Lincoln, Jamaica Plains ; Marrow I 

 Squash. 



From Messrs. Hovey & Co ; Fine plant of Morus 

 Multicaulia. 



From Dr. Brings, Dedham ; Ear of Rice Corn, 

 (curious.) 



From Samuel Blake, South Boston; S ;uash 

 weighing 115 lbs. of the Valparaiso family, well 

 shaped and handsome. 



From J. L. L. F. Warren, Brighton ; Squashes, 

 21 varieties. Marrow, Crook-Necked, Winter, &o. ; 

 Pumpkins, 7 years ; Potatoes, Rohan ; Tomatoes, 

 Yellow and Scarlet ; Beans, Lima, Horticultural, 

 &c . ; Gourds. 



From \V. H. Raphton, New-York ; Great Celery. 



From Eltn. Mr Lowell, Roxbury; Rohan Potatoes. 

 Pe haps nothing equal to this specimen has been 

 seen this season ; certainly none have met the eye 

 of the Com . ittee of superior quality. It is a sub- 

 ject of regret that they were offered nt so late a pe- 

 riod. J. L. R. 



HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION. 



The city has presented the last week objects of 

 strong interest in its Horticultural Exhibition and 

 Mech°anics' Fair. In speaking of them it is diffi- 

 cult to know where to begin or whereto end ; what 

 to say, or how to express or how to define the feel- 

 ings and sentiments which have made our temples 

 tWb almost to bursting, and our hearts ache with 

 the intensity of admiring and delightful excitement 

 Who has not many a time felt that there is no lan- 

 gmgii adequate or flitting to express some emotions 

 of tie soul ; that the boldest expletives and suj er- 

 latives aro soon exhausted without utterinjr at all 

 th« feelings whicli swell in the heart, or presenting 

 in any true images the perceptions of transcendant 

 beauty, skill, or achievement, which fill the imagi- 

 nation. Now we are precisely in this predicament ; 

 and we know that there are liundreds and thousands 

 wh.i entei into our condition witli entire sympathy. 

 But wemust say something, and the Horti^ ultu- 

 ral Exhibition claims our first notice. The Mas- 

 sachusetts Bor jcnltural Society is now about ten 

 years old. (t was formed by a combination of a 

 few gentlen^n in Boston and its vicinity who were 

 disposed to encourage the cultivation of fine fruits, 

 and the introdwjtion of rare and beautiful plants and 

 flowers for util\ty and ombellishmeiit. It had its 

 origin in a higlVy cultivated and refined taste ; and 

 in the most gti.erous and wir^ely directed public 

 spirit ; and it his effected much more of good than 

 the most sanguiie could have anticipated. It has 

 been in the first place the means of establishing 

 the cemetery at lAount Au'Mirn. It cimnected this 

 at first with its plan o'. a botanical garden; and 

 though the cemeterj nas now passed out of its con- 

 trol, yet to the projectors of the Horticultural Soci- 

 ety, and especially to its first president, than whom 

 no man among us has ever been more distingushed 

 for his intelligence and public spirit, are the commu- 

 nity indebted for this beautiful establishment ; an 

 establishment suited to awaken and cherish the 

 best feelings of our iiature ; which has been and 

 must continue to be a most delightful and improv- 

 incr place of publ.c n-soit; and a source of inex*- 

 pressible consolation t) those to whom it is peopled 

 by the most endeared and precious objects of recol- 

 lection ; an establishment which has done more to 

 improve and elevate tlie moral taste of society 



It has been the means in the second place of 

 introducing among us and of bringing into notice 

 and diffusing far and wide, many of the moit valu- 

 able and delicious fruits and vegetables. In this 

 respect it has come powerfully in aid of the agri- 

 cultural societies ; and from directing its atte.ition 

 to these particular object-, it has acted with more 

 efficiency in this matter than they could ever have 

 done. In order to see what has been accomplished 

 it is only necessary to go to their annual or attend 

 their weekly exhibitions ; and observe the variety, 

 tiie beauty, and the excellence of the productions, 

 which they show. 



In the next place it has introduced and encour- 

 aged a taste for rural embellishments, which has 

 made the most remarkable progress and produced 

 the most charming and beautiful results in the 

 vicinity of the capital, and is daily extending itself 

 into the interior to every part of the state. A quar- 

 ter of a century ago and you might have travelled 

 from one end of the state to tlie other, and have 

 scarcely found at the farm-houses ten good kitchen 

 gardens, well stored with abundance and variety ; 

 and much less any particular attention bestowed on 

 the cultivition of fine fruits ; and as to flowers, to 

 have found in a garden a princess' feather, a sweet- 

 william, a marigold, and a sunflower, and abojt the 

 house perhaps a few broken earthern pots or old 

 bottles with the necks knocked off, with 'lere and 

 there a monthly rose, a geranium, or a myrtle stuck 

 in them, would have been to have found a rare in- 

 stance of aristocratic luxury ; and we should at 

 once have been disposed to enquire what person 

 lived there, whose tastes and habits were so difl'er- 

 ent from the rest of the world. 



But what a revolution has been efl^ected ; and 

 all this we confidently assert has been done mainly 

 by the eflTorts made and the impulse given by the 

 Massachusetts Horticultural Society. Everywhere 

 this taste for rural embellishments is extending it- 

 self. Green houses and conservatories are becom- 

 ing not uncommon appendages to the rural resi- 

 dence. The piazzas are trellised with honeysuck- 

 les, and trumpet flowers and bignonias ; the front 

 yards and gardens are laid out with the refinements 

 of order and taste, and stocked with all the varie- 

 ties of floral beauty from a pansy to a dahlia ; 

 and the windows even in the deptli of winter are 

 brilliant and enchanting with their show of splen- 

 did exotics; their japonicas, their daphnes, their 

 monthly roses, thi.'ir geraniums, their lilies, and the 

 other nameless and exquisite beauties, which fig- 

 ure in the floral dance. 



But what is the use ; or what is the profit of all 



these flowers. Why pay so much attention to mere 



embellishment ? Why cultivate things which are 



merely to be looked at and which minister to the 



gratification of the sense of sight only ? We answer 



at once ; why not gratify the sight ? Are not the 



pleasures of the sight among the most innocent and 



the most delicious that the senses can take in? Are 



th<'y not far less likely to corrupf us than the pleas- 



ures of the taste ? Did not God make the eye to see 



with ; and has he not crowded this world, the whole 



i universe, the sky, tlie earth, the water, the air, with 



I image-: and forms of exquisite and inimitable beauty? 



! Has"no! all this been made for tie gratification and 



deli'.;ht of those who have senses to perceive and 



enj ly it? It is the duty of man to indulge, to culti- 



\ate, to qu.cken, to exalt and enlarge this taste ; to 



; search out and multiply the forms of beauty. These 



to make the little spot of earth which God permits 

 him for awhile to appropriate to himself, and to 

 make his dwelling place, as beautiful as n-.ture or 

 art can render it, he not only provides for himself 

 pure, innocent, lasting sources of pleasure, of which 

 he may drink to the fill without satiety, disgust or 

 intoxication ; but he becomes in no mean sense a 

 liberal benefactor to the community ; and to gene- 

 rations which shall come after him. 



But there are higher uses than these ; there are 

 the highest moral and religious uses to be found by 

 the reflecting mind in such cultivation and such 

 exhibitions as these. In the cultivation of these 

 varied and beautiful products man acquires a new 

 consciousness of power. As this consciousness is 

 strengthened his self-respect is increased, and tha 

 value of his existence anJ the sense of his moral 

 responsibility are heightened and deepened. 



In contemplating the perfection of beauty which 

 these fruits and flowers exhibit, how can he help 

 being impressed with the strongest admiratiim for 

 the lieing whose skill designed and formed them. 

 In considering in how many ways tliey minister to 

 his pleasure and comfort, in a form so cheap that 

 every one can have access to it, and m a manner so 

 universal that there can be no monopoly or exclu- 

 sion, how can his heart, if he has a heart, fail to 

 be deeply touched with the goodness of God. The 

 great and divine teacher bade his followers to re- 

 flect "upon the flowers of the field how they grow," 

 and with what brilliancy and gorgeousness are they 

 apparelled ; and if any one can have looked round 

 the room of the Horticultural exhihition, and have 

 found himself moved by no religious consideration, 

 have felt no thoughts of the Creator flitting across 

 his mind, and no sentiments of grateful adoration 

 stirring within his heart, he may well 'lave some 

 doubts of his own humanity. 



We have left to ourselves little room to speak of 

 the exhibition itself. This will be done in full and 

 in detail by the Committees themselves. We believe 

 the display of fruits and flowers has never been ex- 

 celled here. We should like to particularize, but 

 it would be vain to attempt it. The peaches, the 

 pears, the apples, the grapes, the plums, the melons 

 were numerous in variety, beautiful in appearance, 

 and delicious in quality. The show of dahlias was 

 extremely numerous and variegated. But we must 

 stop, and we will finish with a remarkable and en- 

 couraging fact, stated to us by one of the principal 

 contributors to this splendid show. Six years ago he 

 purchased his place without any fruit upon it; and 

 now he has nearly two hundred diff"crent kinds of 

 pears upon it, and other fruits and flowers without 

 number or measure. The great varieties of pears and 

 fruits which he exhibited are all the work of that 

 time. Who will say he is too old to begin ? Who, 

 if he cannot work for himself, is not willing to do 

 something for those who shall come after him, and 

 secure to' himself the blessings of a grateful poster- 

 ity. But in regard to all human plans and enter- 

 prises of good, cast your bread upon the waters and 

 remember the great rule, " what thou doest, do 



quickly." "• ^• 



Boston 



JtgricuUurul Conundrum. — Why 

 man asking for a debt like a particular breed of 

 English cattle? 



Answer. — Because he is a Suffolkdun. — [Com. 



The wheat crop of Michigan is estimated this 

 year at 6,700,000 bushels. 



