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Mcllvan & Orr, of New York ; also from the graperies 

 of Henry A. Kent and William C. Langley, of Gowanus. 

 These were all pronounced hy the Judges as superior 

 and well grown specimens. 



The Delegates to the Pomological Congress assem- 

 bled in Boston in September last, made a valuable and 

 interesting report to the Society, from which it 

 appears that much interest pervades in every section 

 of our country, in the promotion of the growth of 

 fruit, and that many new and valuable specimens have 

 been introduced with the most gratifying results. The 

 Exhibition was held in a large tent erected on the 

 Boston Common. The display of fruit was magnifi- 

 cent, and contained the greatest number of varities 

 ever exhibited in this country or in Europe. Our 

 Delegates express their thanks for the marked atten- 

 tion paid them by the officers of the Pomological Con- 

 gress, as well as to those who forwarded specimens of 

 fruit to our fall exhibition. 



We feel much indebted to William LawtonEsq, of New 

 Kochell, for some fine specimens of his Lawton black- 

 berries ; these were pronounced by judges of fruit to 

 be far in advance of the finest of our ordinary black- 

 berries, and were recommended as worthy the atten- 

 tion of all that would desire this most delicious fruit 

 to abound in their gardens. 



The fall exhibition was announced under the most 

 unfavorable circumstances ; the long continued and 



