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the city, the watchman waketh but in vain." Although we 

 may cultivate our orchards well, and protect them as well as 

 possible against insects, yet, without the smile of Him who 

 rules the elements, our crops may fail. 



Now, in closing, we would recommend to those who have 

 good orchards, to cultivate and protect them as well as possi- 

 ble against insects, and we trust in most cases they will, with 

 the blessing of a kind Providence, be rewarded. 



Joseph How, Chairman. 



ESSEX. 



ASSORTED FKUITS. 



[From the Report of the Committee.] 



We congratulate the society on the decided step in ad- 

 vance which has been made this year in the arrangement of 

 fruit in our hall of exhibition ; that is, of having each variety 

 by itself, and not scattered promiscuously on several tables, 

 as has formerly been the case. It has in former years been 

 impossible for any fruit committee to do justice to the exhib- 

 itors ; and this year we find many of the exhibitors themselves 

 decidedly opposed to this "new arrangement," especially 

 those who had for many years been in the habit of heaping 

 all their fruit together, thus aiming more for a large " collec- 

 tion " than for more choice specimens of fewer and better 

 varieties. We trust that in future this plan will be more 

 perfectly carried out, and that all the contributors will see 

 the propriety of the new method. 



The display of grapes this year was very fine indeed; 

 and the neat arrangement of the tables was a credit to those 

 who had charge in this department. 



This year has been a favorable one for the grape in all this 

 vicinity, as it always does best in a dry, warm season, without 

 any hinderance from early frosts : hence we should plant 

 the grape only in the driest and earliest locations. Even in 

 Western New York and Ohio, where the climate is much 

 more favorable for this fruit than here, experience has 

 proved that grapes can only be grown with any amount of 



