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articles in such good taste. The display of fruit, consid- 

 ering the unfavorable season, was very full and fine, and it 

 was hard to realize, while looking on the fine varieties of 

 peaches, grapes, pears and apples, that this has not been 

 one of the seven years of plenty, in this department. Talk 

 of the poor, hard, granite soil of New Hampshire. What 

 matters it what iier soil is, while she has men, who can 

 produce from it such beautiful and rich varieties of the 

 necessaries and luxuries of life, as were exhibited in Exe- 

 ter the past week ? What western farmer can fill a table 

 more richly and fully, than did Mr. B. F. Clark, of Strat- 

 ham, who is a fair representative of what Yankee farmers 

 may do ? There was every thing exhibited there, from 

 the bright yellow corn in the ear, tastefully arranged in the 

 form of a pyramid, to the richly frosted cake. Where is 

 the soil that can produce more delicious grapes, or more 

 beautiful flowers, than were exhibited by Mr. J. T. Smith, 

 of Brentwood, Mrs. L. S. Currier, of East Kingston, 

 and by Mr. R. W. Currier, of the same place ? And 

 where on earth can any thing be made more tasteful 

 and pretty, than the beautiful basket, composed entirely 

 of the richest dahlias, and filled with fruit which was 

 worthy of a premium, and would have obtained one, had 

 there been one variety more — furnished by Mr. J. C. Brad- 

 ley, of Danville ? What soil can produce a greater variety 

 and richer specimens of vegetables, than were exhibited 

 on the table, furnished by Mr. Wm. P. Moulton, or those ex- 

 hibited by Mr. D. F. Hayes, the Hampton Falls Club, and 

 the other farmers in our town and county ? The energy 

 and thrift, which can raise sweet potatoes, the egg-plant, 

 tomatoes, salsify and grapes, on the soil of New Hamp- 

 shire, makes one independent of latitude and longitude. 

 Fine fruit was sent from Greenland; we looked in vain for 

 any from Portsmouth, or for any other manifestation or 

 particular interest in the Fair from the gentlemen of that 

 city. We presume that, as mercantile communities, gea- 



