For the best twenty plants, at least one-half of them to be in bloom, from commercial growers only, a Silver cup of fifteen dollars.

Competition for premiums before this Society is free and open to all persons from any section of the United States.

Ad Interim Report June 20, 1853

The Fruit Committee, in presenting their usual monthly ad interim report, would remind the Society that, at the stated meeting of last month, specimens of two new grapes (one a seedling of the Black Hamburg, the other the Musqu's Verdel), were exhibited by the originator, Mr. J. Fisk Allen, of Salem, Mass. Wishing to have an opportunity of carefully examining these two varieties, the committee only noticed them cursorily in their regular report for that evening, with a promise of submitting a more detailed pomological description of them in their June ad interim report The specimens have been winter forced, and being ripe in March, were kept too long after their maturity to be in their greatest perfection.