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 They also recommend the payment of the following 



GRATUITIES. 



To Anthony Chase, for his plate of Areson $1 00 



S. V. Stone, for his plate of St. Ghislaiu 1 00 



John F. Johnson, of Northborough, for his plate of Seckel 1 00 



P. L. Moen, for his collection of twenty varieties 2 00 



S. H. Colton for his collection of twenty varieties 2 00 



S. S. Foster, for his collection of twenty varieties 2 00 



Hartley Williams, for his collection of ten varieties 2 00 



Mrs. E. Draper, for her collection of ten varieties 2 00 



S. V. Stone, for his collection of ten varieties 2 00 



Edward Earle, for his collection often varieties 2 00 



John C. Whitin, for his collection of five varieties 2 00 



Respectfully submitted, 



HARTLEY WILLIAMS, Chairman. 



REPORT ON VEGETABLES. 



H. L. Parkek, Chairman; Marshall Flagg, Charles Belcher, Thos. 

 R. NoRCROSs, George G. Burbank., J. D. Lovell, C. K. Hubbard, William 

 Eames, of Worcester, and Josiah L. Woodward, of Millbiiry. 



In this department the committee report twenty five contributors, and one 

 thousand seven hundred and thirty-four entries, being more than three times 

 the number ever entered at any previous exhibition. Highest number of dif- 

 ferent varieties of vegetables contributed by a single individual, one hundred 

 and thirty. 



The extent, variety, and excellence of the contributions, and the limited 

 dimensions of the " upper chamber," rendered the task of awarding premiums 

 extremely difficult and perplexing. The contributions having from these causes 

 necessarily assumed, in many instances, an altitudinous rather than a lateral 

 position, and the committee having had, superadded to their other duties, the 

 labor of seeking the foundation of some vegetable " Pelion piled on Ossa," or 

 dragging to light from its obscure corner some valuable esculent, shaded with 

 celery or umbrageous kale, it would not seem entirely strange if entries worthy 

 of meritorious notice had been overlooked. For all shortcomings, they ask 

 jour charity, and hope for better auspices another time. 



In two or three instances the competition for the same premium was so close 

 as to call forth much diversity of opinion ; especially was this the case in the 



