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meeting, and would recommend the same plan to be continued, thus calling 

 out the best fruit grown in the State, which adds very much to the gratifica- 

 tion and instruction of all who attend our meetings. 



Your committee would further recommend that the secretary of this society 

 take measures to get a report from all the local societies in the State upon 

 what five winter apples have proved most profitable in their respective counties 

 for market purposes, and report the same at our next meeting. All of which 

 is respectfully submitted. 



G. H. LA FLEUR, 

 Chairman of Committee. 



REPORT ON OTHER FRUITS, ETC. 



Your committee on fruits not exhibited for premiums beg leave to report 

 that we have given the fruits so exhibited as careful an examination as we well 

 could, and we find very many fine specimens of choice fruit that, if they had 

 been entered for premiums, would have, we think, sharply contested the prizes 

 with those so entered. 



Among those we examined, and we may have unintentionally omitted some, 

 we are gratified to mention in terms of high commendation the following, viz : 



One plate of Tompkins county King, by Mr. Collar, of Adrian. 



One plate each of King, Baldwin, and Twenty Ounce, fine and choice, by 

 Mr. S. W. Dorr, of Manchester. 



Four plates of beautiful Eed Canada, by Mr. E. Buel, of Kalamazoo — the 

 finest exhibited. 



One plate of Mother — very toothsome — by Wm. K. Emmons, of Kent 

 county. 



Several plates of McLellan, by H. Dale Adams, of Galesburg. 



"We are also much indebted to Messrs. Chas. Arnold and Wm. Saunders, of 

 Ontario, Canada, for a fine exhibit of a number of varieties of apples grown in 

 that section. This collection is very interesting, and shows that "'over the 

 river" we meet pomologists of great zeal and intelligence. The exhibit 

 embraces samples by Mr. Arnold of the following: Lady's Blue Pearmain, 

 Arnold's Beauty, Ontario, Ella, Beauty, and four plates of seedlings grown 

 from seeds obtained by crossing the Northern Spy with Spitzeuberg and 

 Wagener. 



Those exhibited by Mr. Saunders were Cox's Orange Pippin and Swayzie 

 Pomme Gris (this apple is claimed to be an improvement over the old Pomme 

 Gris, and we are inclined to admit the claim to be well made), and Grimes' 

 Golden. 



There were also exhibited 1 plate of large and fine Jonathans, by H. C. Sher- 

 wood of Watervliet, — another plate of apples which we were unable to deter- 

 mine whether they were not for premium or otherwise. 



We must also mention the obligations the society is under to Dr. Conklin and 

 Messrs. L. D. Watkins, J. D. Baldwin, and Emil Baur for pears exhibited; 

 also to Mr. Baldwin for quinces exhibited ; and Mr. T. S. Hubbard of N. Y. 

 for beautiful sterns, well preserved, of the Prentiss grape ; also to Dr. Conklin 

 for a little beautifully preserved bunch of Prentiss grapes. Also to the Niag- 

 ara Grape Company for stems of the excellent white grape called the Niagara. 

 Here, too, we must not overlook Mr. Woodruff's white grape, the "Ann Ar- 

 bor," which certainly possesses very noticeable features, and is highly com- 

 mended by those whom we accept as authority ; well preserved Salems were 

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