SEVENTH ANNIVERSARY 
OF THE 
MASSACHUSETTS HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
Tue Annual Exhibition of Fruits and Flowers, of the Massa- 
chusetts Horticultural Society, took place on Wednesday the 
16th and Thursday the 17th September; and the place selected 
was the Odeon, situated in Federal-street, in Boston. The area 
having on this occasion been cleared, formed by a slight but new 
arrangement, a magnificent Hall, of lofty height, and spacious 
dimensions, with a skylight in the centre. ‘The gallery leading 
from the vestibule, being closely studded on either side with 
pines, formed like a forest, a dark but pleasing avenue of en- 
trance. 
The fruits, which were on this occasion exhibited, were al- 
together uncommonly fine, and of kinds and of qualities superior 
to those of former years. And the display of the flowers and 
the fruits, and the skillful arrangement of the whole, in all its 
parts, produced an effect confessedly surpassing any thing of the 
kind before witnessed. 
We remarked that the exhibition, and by far the most invalu- 
able specimens and varieties of flowers, and more especially of 
fruits, consisted of new kinds, in very great proportion ;—or, of 
those kinds mostly which, ten or twelve years ago, were unknown 
to our country, evenin name. ‘Thanks to those enlightened in- 
dividuals, who with untiring zeal have ransacked earth, recalling 
home to their country all that might serve to adorn, and all that 
might be eminently useful, for trial in our climate, and on our 
highly favored shores. 
The days of exhibition were unusually fine, and the concourse 
of visitors very numerous, both from the city, and from various 
and remote parts of the country. 
On the second day, a discourse was delivered at the Odeon, 
by Professor J. L. Russell of Salem. 
The following is the account of the exhibition of Fruits :— 
By E. Vose of Dorchester, President of the Society—Pears : 
Bartlett, Passe Colmar, Tillington, Urbaniste, Wilkinson, Cush- 
