Third Day of the Hartford County Horticultural Society Exhibition

Patrick Buckley entered two squashes, one weighing 178 pounds and the other weighing 163.

Affleck won several prizes for his entries:

• Best collection of greenhouse plants - $10
• Best table bouquet - $3
• Second best fuchsias - $2
• Best cut tea rose - $1
• Best Bourbon roses - $2
• Best Hardy’s Perpetual rose - $2

“The vegetable show consisted of the usual exhibit of mammoth productions.  Consequently the visitors looked at all, after the first, as very fair in their way, but none would submit to a surprise at anything they saw after the first five minutes.”

1. Patrick Buckley was the gardener at the American School for the Deaf.
2. George Affleck’s prize money would be equivalent to $720.89 in 2023.

Unattributed.  “The horticultural exhibition,” Hartford Daily Courant, September 28, 1860, page 2.