562 BTATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



The Monroe Wine Company presented three samples, namely : Red Concord of 1873, 

 White Concord of 1873, and the Golden Concord, a champagne or sparkling wine. 



John Ileisig presented a bottle of Norton's Virginia, a very fine wine of moderate body, 

 a pleasant astringent taste, a irood tlavor, and ranking with the very best shown ; and 

 although it lacked age, it was considered as equal to many of the fine Bordeaux wines of 

 France. 



Of the Pointe aux Peaux wines, the committee pronounced the Concord of 1871 as the 

 best and most perfect. This was a white wine of a fine golden color, a delicious bouquet, a 

 fair strength, and a flavor that showed it had much of tlie full spirit of the very soul of the 

 grape. The Delaware of 1870 is a very delicate wine with much less bouquet and flavor, 

 but is ripened by age, and so light to the taste that its fine body and strength is hardly 

 appreciated or felt. As a wine for the sick it is probably unsurpassed. The Norton's Vir- 

 ginia was a red wine with a rough astringency and flavor, as if made of grapes that had 

 not fully ripened. There was also a slight mustiness in the sample presented. 



The Catawba was a fair wine, not very distinctive in character, with but little bouquet, 

 but yet a fair medium wine. 



The White Concord of 1873, shown by the 3Ionroe Wine Company, was of a rich color, 

 of a good bouquet, and a pleasant flavor and ; trength, but evidently not yet free from the 

 effects of its manufacture. 



The Red Concord differed in color, and has rather more astringency than the white, and 

 is a wine of much the same character as the white. 



Of the Golden Concord and sparkling wine the committee can only say that it is a sweet, 

 pleasant, light, sparkling wine that may be adapted to some tastes, but was not a wine that 

 would rank high for quality. 



The committee, taking the number 100 as the highest mark of quality, have given the fol- 

 lowing standard to these wines : 



John Reisig's Norton's Virginia - 85 



Pointe aux Peaux Company's Virginia - - 65 



Pointe aux Peaux Company's White Concord 80 



Monroe Company's White Concord - 65 



Pointe aux Peaux Catawba of 1871 .- 75 



Pointe aux Peaux Delaware of 1870 - - 85 



Monroe Company's Red Concord of 1873 - 70 



Monroe Company's Golden Concord - 50 



The committee are fully impressed with the excellent showing that these wines made for 

 the quality of the grapes grown in this district, and infer that the soil does much to make 

 the Norton's Virginia and the Concord so high in quality. 



R. F. JOHNSTONE, of Detroit, 

 ADDISON KELLY, of Kelly's Island, 

 B. DANSARD, of Monroe, 



Committee. 



REPOKT OF COMillTTEE ON FRUITS. 



The Committee on Fruit beg leave to make the following report: 



We find on the tables a remarkably fine display of well selected and superior varieties of 

 fruit, and, what is more remarkable, they are all, or nearly all, correctly labeled — proving 

 to us the good influence of your Society in educating the people to know correctly the names 

 of the different varieties of fruit on exhibition. Considering the season, this is a better dis- 

 play than we expected to see. 



There are also a few fair vegetables for so early in the season. 



We find on the tables superior specimens of the following varieties of apples : Wagener, 

 Red Canada, and especially we considered the tine specimen of King of Tompkins County 

 remarkable for this season of the year, exhibited by George Parmelee, Grand Traverse 

 County. 



By J. N. Davenport, of Monroe, four plates of Tulpehocken, — fine for the season. 



L. Bisbee, Monroe, seedling apple, past its prime. 



P. G. SheSer, South Bend, fine specimens of Red Canada. 



George Weltz, Wilmington, Ohio, specimens of the Clinton seedling peach, ripe. 



H. E. Bidwell, South Haven, Mich., fair specimens of St. Germain pears. 



Agricultural College, 20 varieties of strawberries, correctly labeled, a large and fine display. 



H. P. Chapman, Reading, Downer and Wilson strawberries, — fair. 



Jeremiah Brown, Battle Creek, President Wilder, — extra fine. 



Henry Weamer, Clinton county, extra fine Jucunda. 



E. R. Haigh, South Haven, fine display of 8 varieties ; extra fine Bidwell. 



