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labors, which become, from year to year, more arduous and imposing on 

 Committees appointed to examine this department. A department em- 

 braced and supported by wise and discriminating bodies, viewing the 

 products of the agriculturist in a sense relating both to the advantages 

 of his social and moral life. 



" Apples being first on our lists for awards, and also most prominent 

 on the tables before us, we proceeded in our duties, often remarking 

 upon the beauty of specimens, exhibiting strongly the adaptation of both 

 soil and climate for the production of fine fruits, and again, often re- 

 marking upon the universal love every man who owns an acre of ground 

 has for the production of fruits on his own lands, as well as the desire 

 already general, to produce only those most acceptable, and ministering 

 in the highest degree to his tastes ; these tastes, be it understood, vary- 

 ing only as opportunity and advantages have been enjoyed for their for- 

 mation. 



*' After carefully examining a large number of seedling apples exhi- 

 bited in various collections, your Committee could not discover one 

 which, ripening at the same time with the varieties already known and 

 described, possessed merit sufficient to warrant them in awarding the pre- 

 mium. 



" In connection with this part of our report, your Committee desire to 

 enumerate some of the varieties of apples which appeared best adapted to 

 the soil and climate of the State, viz : Fall Wine, Rambo, Fall Pippin, 

 iSwaar, lloxbury Russet, Rhode Island Greening, Belmont, Esopus 

 Spitzenberg, Wcstfield Seek-no-further. 



"Of our awards, next in order come Pears ; and after carefully exa- 

 mining the long tables of fruits, and noting how perfectly grown were 

 the few specimens in each exhibitor's collection, we could but regret that 

 more care and thought had not been given to the growth of this prince of 

 all fruits ; for while nearly every exhibitor had one or more specimens 

 of one variety beautifully grown, we could not make up collections 

 enabling us to award more than one premium. 



"With the schedule of awards for Peaches, your Committee could 

 only read, and lament the lateness of the season, which precluded both 

 the enjoyment of eating a ripe and luscious peach, blooming with the 

 freshness of a new and provident land, and the pleasure it would have 

 given them to have distributed the largess offered by your Honorable 

 Society to the man who should have produced, in the ' Far West,' a fruit 



