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"Sd best and greatest variety of winter apples, T. Dean, Walker, $0 75 

 Best and greatest variety of plums, O. M. Barker, Grand Rap- 

 ids, 1 00 



Best 6 varieties of peaches, Mrs. Houghtaling, Grand Rapids,. 1 00 



2d best 6 " D. Schermerliorn, Walker, 75 



Best dozen summer apples, G. M. Barker, Grand Rapids, 50 



Best dozen autumn apples, G. M. Barker, Grand Rapids, 50 



" winter apples, W. 0. Houghtaling, Grand Rapids, . . 50 



^' autumn pears, G. C. Nelson, Grand Rapids, 50 



" quinces, J. W. Sligh, Grand Rapids, 50 



" peaches, T. Dean, Walker, 50 



Best 25 apple trees, G. C. Nelson, Grand Rapids, 2 00 



Of the other kinds of fruit for which premiums had been oftered, no 

 •specimens were exhibited. The committee, however, cannot close their 

 report without expressing the great satisfaction they have had in the 

 performance of the duty assigned them. All the articles submitted for 

 their inspection, were worthy of being presented at a fair. The num- 

 ber of varieties of apples was very great, and many of the samples un- 

 commonly large. They have never seen — they doubt if any one has 

 seen — Rhode Island Greenings of such size as were many at this exhibi- 

 tion. And the same remark might be made of some other kinds. 

 Thirty-eight varieties were produced by one gentleman — one of the 

 best farmers and fruit-growers in the county. The following are the 

 names of some of them : Baldwin, Swaar, Esopus Spitzenburg, Canada 

 Red, Fall Pippin, Cayuga Red Streak, Beauty of Greece, Snow, Yellow 

 Bell Fleur, Fall Greening, Orange Pippin, Herrick Seedling, Rhode 

 Island Greening. Of plums, but two varieties were exhibited. They 

 were, the Lombard, very large and of good flavor — and Purple Favorite, 

 remarkably rich. 



Of pears, the assortment was necessarily limited, it being too late in 

 the season for the earlier, and too early for the best fall and winter fruit. 

 Among the kinds submitted for examination, were the White Doyenne, 

 Grey Doyenne, Colmar, Marie Louisa. 



The samples of quinces were very fine. But what shall the commit- 

 tee say of peaches ? The season was so far advanced that all the early 

 choice varieties had disappeared. There had been an unusual amount 

 of wet and cold weather, so adverse to fine flavor, and yet notwithstand- 



