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was a serious drawback, and deprived thousands of exhibitors from receiving 

 the full benefit of the awards. 



THE LOCAL SOCIETIES. 



The various local organizations, such as the South Haven Pomological Soci- 

 ety, the Lake Shore Pomological Society (Saugatuck and Ganges), the Penin- 

 sular Farmers' Club, Grand Traverse ; the Grand River Valley Horticultural 

 Society, the Lenawee County Farmers' Club, of Adrian, and the Wayne County 

 Horticultural Society, made excellent displays, but were not, it appears, all so 

 distinctively entered on the books of the judges, nor as distinctively credited 

 by cards on the tables as to enable the judges to make recommendations 

 in regard to them ; and for the same reason the press was unable to give them 

 all the credit which was their due. Had each exhibitor received proper credit 

 by entries and by cards, the number of awards to Michigan fruit growers and 

 societies would have been much greater, as the chairman of the group of judges, 

 Mr. Thomas Meehan, was exceedingly careful to give proper credit wherever he 

 could find out it was justly due. No articles should ever be sent to such an 

 exhibition without being accompanied by the name of the grower or exhibitor, 

 and an advisory invoice or application for entry properly rilled up, should be 

 sent by mail to consignee. Then the officer in charge would have material 

 with which to give the proper and needful information to judges, the press, 

 and interested visitors. Although, in almost daily attendance during the exhi- 

 bition, the fact that several of the above named societies were exhibitors was 

 not discovered by me until after the close of the exhibition, as with the excep- 

 tion of the South Haven Pomological Society and the Peninsular Farmers' 

 Club there appeared to be no special division assigned any of them designated 

 by card or otherwise. I make this statement, not to complain of the arrange- 

 ment or want of arrangement, but to explain why more prominence is not 

 given to these respective organizations in the body of the article. The pre- 

 sumption is that they all did well, because in the aggregate the exhibitions of 

 Michigan fruit commanded unqualified praise and universal commendation. 



Grand Haven, Mich. 



[Note by Secretary. — The award to the State Pomological Society for peaches 

 and plums was undoubtedly made for the peaches exhibited by the South Haven Po- 

 mological Society, and for the plums exhibited by Judge Eamsdcll. It should be 

 recollected that the exhibits made by other contributors, as by the Lenawee County 

 Farmers' Club, by Mr. Hoppin, of Van Buren county, of pears by Mr. llgenfritz, by 

 the Peninsular Farmers' Club, etc.. were all included in the general award to the 

 State Pomological Society.] 



