Fruit:-Only a small display of fruit was made to-day. W. C. Strong had very fine Grapes, and Stephen Driver, Salem, superior Beurre Bose pears. Mr. James Swan sent a sample of a Grape - evidently a new variety, and probably an accidental seedling - which the Committee pronounced "extra large, fine flavored, and very juicy." Mr. Shepard, of Dorchester, also sent seedling Pears, which the Committee state were "large, fine appearance and flavor, slightly gritty".

October 14

Exhibited - Fruit: - J. Breck etc Son made a fine show of Grapes in variety, and a few excellent Pears were shown by other contributors.

October 21

An adjourned meeting of the Society was held to-day,-the President in the chair.

Mr. Walker, from the Committee appointed for that purpose, reported that it was expedient to have a course of lectures by competent persons before the Society - and the report was accepted, and the same Committee were authorized to procure lectures, Ac.

Mr. R. M. Copeland, of Lexington, moved that the Report made by him, as Chairman of a Committee on Scraping Trees, be taken from the table and discusssed, two weeks from to-day. Adopted.

Mr. C. M. Hovey alluded to the doings of the meeting, October 7, when he was absent in New York, and suggested that the records be so amended as to correspond with the report of what hud been done, and they were properly amended.

E. S. Rand, Esq., then submitted the following preamble and resolutions:

Whereat, The Massachusetts Horticultural Society, at a meeting held on the 27ih day of May last adopted the Report of a Committee appointed to examine into all the circumstances attending the award of certain premiums or gratuities to Messrs. Hovey & Co., which Report, made by the said Committee in the discharge, as they deemed it, of the duty imposed upon and adopted by the Society, charged a member of the Fruit Committee with irregular and improper conduct in procuring tor himself such award, and formally censured him therefor;

And, achcreas, the said Report is also considered as indirectly censuring all the members of the said Fruit Committee ;

And, whereas, the Messrs. Hovey, as well as all the members of the said Fruit Committee, deny that their conduct has been in any respect irregular or improper, or in any manner contrary to the usages of the Society;

And, whereas, the Society is desirous of avoiding even the appearance of injustice to any of its members, and it is believed that if any irregularity did occur, the recurrence thereof will be prevented by the action of the Society in the present case, and by the enacting of suitable by-laws; therefore, Resolved, That the resolutions hereinbefore named, passed on the 27th day of May last, be and the same are hereby rescinded.

Resolved, That the foregoing preamble and resolutions be entered at length on the records of the Society.

Unanimously adopted.

Mr. Rand then moved that the words, " Rescinded, October 22, 1854," be written on the margin of the record, against the Report of the Select Committee, and the vote of censure. This was unanimously adopted.

The meeting was one of the largest ever convened in the Society's room.

THE TYSON PEAR .