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resembles the Doyenne d'Ete, and I think may be found identical, was also in 

 great perfection. The blight has proved fatal to many of the line specimens of 

 this enterprising cultivator. The Onondagas were all ruined. The Flemish 

 Beauty, Louise Bonne de Jersey and Bartlett were slightly injured. Winter 

 Nelis, Duchesse, and many other sorts were found in a deplorable condition. 

 The Bartlett thus far was named as the most profitable variety and the Buffum 

 next. 



An exceedingly fine row of pear trees of large size, and free from blight or 

 injury of any kind, was noticed growing between rows of peach trees, and loaded 

 heavily with choice specimens of fruit, mostly Bartlett and Flemish Beauty. 

 On inquiry as to their fine condition, while within a stone's throw of the same 

 varieties so badly injured, we were told it was in the condition of the soil. 



The peach being a gross feeder appropriated nearly all the crude vegetable 

 manures with which his orchards had been liberally supplied, and he had found 

 where this class of manures had been applied to the pear in greatest quantity, 

 they had sufl:ered most from blight. There were about forty trees in this row, 

 mostly Bartlett, and finer specimens of fruit are seldom found than were bur- 

 thening the branches of these beautiful trees. The location, soil, cultivation, 

 etc., of this orchard, and also of the quince, which was next examined, were 

 the same as the older peach orchard, of which it was an adjoining plat. 



The quince trees were planted in cross sections of the apple orchard, and 

 equally dividing it from north to south and from east to west, and was thus 

 planted to test the adaptability of the varied soil to the growth of the quince, 

 of which Mr. Engle had had no former experience. The trees encountered 

 nearly every variety of soil, from heavy clay to sand and gravel, but no per- 

 ceptible diiference was discovered in the growth, health, or productiveness 

 of the trees. The only injury manifest as yet was by the twig borer in the 

 early part of the season, and that not material. How unlike the pear trees only 

 a few rods distant, and nearly ruined by the blight ! A bountiful crop of fine 

 quinces rewards the owner for his labors here. 



THE GAEDE:NrS AT SAGIXAV.'. 



The Saginaw Yalley furnished but two entries in Division A. Both were in 

 class 34, " Fruit garden attached to village or city residence, to include a suc- 

 cession." The first was by John C. Zeigler, and the next by E. F. Guild. On 

 examination, neither seemed to properly belong to this class. Mr. Guild's was 

 the nearest approach to it, and was left in to compete with Dr. S. J. Hutchin- 

 son of ISTorthport, Lcelanaw county, and Mr. Zeiglers entry was transferred to 

 class 20, in competition with Thomas Doyle of Monroe. Mr. Guild's garden 

 was examined on September 16, during the State Fair, and found to comprise 

 what would be better termed a family garden than a fruit garden. 



Everything here was found in neat order; all the ground utilized to the 

 fullest capacity, both in regard to profit for family use and attractive beauty 

 to the household ; vegetables in their season, with successive crops of peas, 

 beans, corn, lettuce, cabbage, etc. ; small fruit in abundance, strawberries in 

 variety, raspberries of several sorts, with evidence of having borne heavy 

 crops, of which were found several magnificent clusters of a second crop, 

 blackberries, currants, and gooseberries, Avitli a few cherries and peaches just 

 coming in bearing, make up the list of fruits in this small garden. Passing 

 from the useful to the beautiful, were found flowers on every hand, — annuals, 

 perennials, bulbous, and tuberous-rooted, in-doors and out, flowers everywhere. 



