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and this would give eight families to the mile, — a far better number than most 

 of our country roads can show. The hist means is to adopt the European plan 

 of locating the houses of the entire population of a given section, say of each 

 school district, at a common center, from which each one goes out to his farm 

 in the morning and returns in the evening. 



Of course we need not adopt the features or go to the extremes which render 

 the plan as practiced in Europe so objectionable. But the main idea may be 

 accepted and carried out with American details. Thus in this village home 

 each one may be allotted an acre of laud, which if fronting 8 or 10 rods, will 

 give 32 to 40 families along one-half mile of this street. This plan too has its 

 objections, — serious ones, — and where much stock is kept it would be imprac- 

 ticable ; but I submit that in many cases it would not be so, that on the contrary 

 it is now successfully practiced in some parts of Xcw England, that though 

 attended with some disadvantages it offers the very perfection of delightful 

 home and social life, and that it is well worthy serious consideration in every 

 newly settled country. 



The Committee on Exhibition of Fruit, through Mr. Elwanger, of Rochester, 

 New York, then made the following report : 



The committee report that they find a very good display of apples, embracing 

 about 150 plates, as follows : 



Mr. I. M. Selover, of Coldwater, lias 8 named varieties,—! plates Baldwin, 1 Bell- 

 flower, 1 Lady Sweet, 1 Green Sweet, 1 Bed Winter Pearmain, 1 Bed Canada, 1 Esopus 

 Spitzenburg, 1 Swaar, 1 Bambo. 



Mr. J. K. Lawrence, of California, Branch county, a fine collection, consisting of 2 

 plates Canada Bed, 2 Seek-no-further, 2 Northern Spy, 2 Greening, 2 Pound Sweet, 2 

 Peck's Pleasant, 2 Golden Busset, very fine but deficient in flavor, 2 Baldwin. 



Mr. Shirtz, of Oceana county, exhibited 8 varieties, among them a very fine and 

 highly colored specimen of Hyslop Crab, 2 plates Baldwin, 2 Northern Spy, 1 Ehode 

 Island Greening, 1 Golden Russet, 1 Seek-no-further, 1 Wagener. 



The committee reported a fine collection from Wayne county, and among them 

 were good specimens of Fallawater, Yellow Belltlower, and Northern Spy. 



The Michigan Agricultural College exhibited 10 varieties, — 1 plate Baldwin, 1 

 Wagener, 1 Talman Sweet, 1 Boxbury Busset, 1 Golden Bnsset, 1 Yellow Belltlower. 

 1 Westfield Seek-no-further, 1 Northern Spy, of high color, grown on trees in grass, 2 

 Northern Spy, grown on trees where the soil was cultivated, of less color than pre- 

 ceding, but much better and fairer apples, 1 Ehode Island Greening. 2 apples of natu- 

 ral fruit with a remarkable growth about the calyx. 



L. L. Lance, of Ganges, offered a collection of about twenty varieties, among which 

 were Talman Sweet. Mammoth Pippin, and Ben Davis. 



Mr. Hanford, of Bristol. Indiana, showed 8 varieties highly colored. A good collec- 

 tion. 1 Plate Northern Spy, 1 King, 1 Hubbarston's Nonsuch, very fine. 1 Baldwin. 

 1 Smith's Cider, Crawford's Late, late, fine appearance but poor quality. 1 Long Pear- 

 main, 1 Bed Canada. 



The Grand River Valley Horticultural Society exhibited 80 varieties of apples. 

 Among them the Shiawassee Beauty, a handsome late fall apple, slightly like 

 the Faineuse or Snow Apple, very handsome; the Bubicon, a firm apple of the Bald- 

 win type, but with less color, very hardy and late keeper; the Jonathan, an apple 

 deserving greater notice than it receives; and also the Yellow Bellllower. 



ilr. Elwanger, in presenting the report, said that lie had found that the 

 highly colored fruit was not always best in quality, when on the same tree; 

 upon different trees it, depends upon the culture. So also the quality of large, 

 overgrown fruit is not equal in quality to that of smaller or more average size. 

 He called especial attention to the display of Northern Spy by the Agricultural 

 College. The difference between the grass grown and cultivated was very 

 marked, both in color and in the fairness of the fruit. 



While this report was being read there were various interruptions, explaining 



