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Kennebec Table, we find Friend Joseph Taylor, with fifty-two 

 varieties, comprising the well known fall and winter sorts. la 

 making up his collection Friend Taylor has included several locally 

 famous apples, among them the Zachary Pippin, an early winter 

 apple of positive merit which originated in Belgrade ; Judy, a 

 handsome red sweet apple of fine quality, a native of Rome; 

 Flanders, a pleasant sour fall apple from Dexter ; Columbus, a 

 large red apple, which originated in Belgrade ; Stuart, a very nice 

 ftll apple from Belgrade, and Sweet Greening, an excellent fall 

 apple, the scions of which were brought from Martha's Vineyard 

 as many as seventy-five years ago. Besides these. Friend Taylor 

 has remarkably fine samples of the Nodhead, Baldwin, Somerset, 

 Porter, Williams' Favorite, Dean, (a very handsome apple,) and 

 King of Tompkins County. On this table are smaller but very 

 creditable exhibits from J. A, Varney & Son, and Charles S. Pope. 

 The Kennebec collection crowds itself on to the fourth table, at 

 the head of which is a fine exhibit from 



A. Smith & Son, Monmouth, which comprises fifty varieties, 

 all of uniform excellence. In this lot are the Porter, Northern 

 Spy, Baldwin, Fall Harvey, Talman's Sweet, Vandevere, Nodhead 

 and many others. Mr. Smith makes a specialty of Roxbury Rus- 

 sets, and last year kept his crop till July, and then marketed them 

 in Bangor for $7 per barrel. At this price who questions the 

 statement that it is the most profitable variety grown in the State ? 

 Adrian Bowman of Waterville, had a collection of very noticeable 

 specimens, although no attempt was made by him to show a large 

 number. His Early Harvests, Baldwins and Nodheads, were cer- 

 tainly elegant; while he had very fine samples of the King of 

 Tompkins County, Ulack Oxford and Northern Spy, and good 

 Roxbury Russets and Talman's Sweets. Russell Eaton of Au- 

 gusta contributed specimens of Ilubbardston Nonsuch, Fall Har- 

 vey, Northern Spy and Winthrop Greening, all of which were 

 very large, uniform and well grown. From the fourth table, the 

 Kennebec collection again crowds itself over upon the 



Fifth Table, where it makes a display, which of itself would 

 be notable even as a county exhibit, at a State Fair. Messrs. J. 

 Pope & Son here show between twenty and thirty varieties of fall 

 and winter fruit from their celebrated orchard at Manchester, from 

 which they are this year getting a fair yield, despite the unfavor- 

 able conditions. Henry Taber of Vassalboro' has about twenty 



