320 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan., 



strong and easily fertilized. This fruit was the largest on exhibition. When 

 first colored the fruit is rather acid, but when fully ripened is very rich and deli- 

 cious. A small bed of this new seedling yielded in 1 883 at the rate of four hun- 

 dred bushels per acre. 



Also No. 125, a strong bi-sexual variety of great productiveness and excellence ; 

 also No. 32, 65, 87, 118, 24, 130, 133, 135, 70, and several others, which are very 

 promising. 



This exhibit, though like former ones, impromptu, was full of interest, especially 

 as an occasion of free interchange of views among the growers of fruits and 

 flowers. 



EXHIBIT OF FRUITS, GRAIN, AND VEGETABLES AT 

 THE WINTER MEETING AT WATERBURY. 



An exhibit of fruits, grains, and vegetables is a specialty of the 

 Connecticut Board of Agriculture's meetings. This commenced as 

 far back as the meeting at Meriden in 1873, when a ten-foot table 

 was used, until now at Waterbury 190 feet of table were required 

 to display the articles offered. 



The farmers from all parts of the State made such contributions as they could 

 for comparison. T. S. Gold, Secretary of the Board, exhibited thirty-nine varie- 

 ties of apples and seven of winter pears, all of superior merit and worthy of care- 

 ful study and examination ; also a fine sample of sorghum syrup and a barrel 

 head presser. 



The Green's Farms Agricultural Club exhibited as follows : 



H. B. Wakeman — Three dishes apples; half-dozen beets; two varieties pota- 

 toes ; one dish of wheat ; one sample white onions ; one sample corn. 



Chas. B. Meeker — Red onions; white onions; white oats. 



J. B. Mills — Three varieties potatoes. 



L. P. Wakeman — Probstier oats, which yielded eighty bushels per acre. 



Walter Jennings — Clawson wheat, and two kinds of corn. 



John Elwood — Corn, beets, and onions. 



T. B. Wakeman — Two kinds white onions, corn, and wheat. 



Chas. Mills — Onions and Queen of Valley otatoes. 



A. S. Jennings — Mediterranean wheat. ^ 



S. B. Sherwood — Five varieties of corn, oni |lof oats, and one of Clawson wheat. 



H. G. Birge — Longfellow corn ; two kinds potatoes ; one of wheat. 



A. C. Taylor — One wheat ; one oats ; one onions ; one potatoes. 



Wm. J. Jennings — Two kinds squashes ; a nest of egg-gourds; one pop-corn ; 

 four kinds field corn ; one evergreen sweet corn ; one barley ; one rye, and sam- 

 ples of beets. 



Austin Jennings — Three samples corn ; red and white onions. 



Ebenezer Beers — Three kinds potatoes ; one pop-corn ; one white Dent corn ; 

 two dishes apples. 



John H. Sherwood — One sample of field corn. 



Daniel H. Sherwood — One sample carrots ; one sample potatoes. 



