THE STATE FAIR— 1873. 187 



DIVISION" 0. — NUKSERY STOCK. 



Collection Kursery Stock, product of this State — First premium, IS". P. Hus- 

 ted, Lowell, Kent county, 810. 



Collection Ornamental Nursery Stock — First premium, George Taylor, Kal- 

 amazoo, 810 ; second premium, N. P. Husted, Lowell, 85. 



Ten Apple Trees 3 years old — First premium, N. P. Husted, Lowell, 83. 



Ten Apple Trees 2 years old — First premium, N". P. Husted, Lowell, 83. 



Ten Budded Peach Trees — First premium, N. P. Husted, Lowell, 83. 



Ten Grape Vines — First premium, N". P. Husted, Lowell, 83 ; second pre- 

 mium, F. F. Kleeman, Saugatuck, Allegan county, 82. 



Reinarlcs hy Committee. — Your committee take pleasure in saying, in con- 

 nection with the awards, that they found all the nursery stock entered of the 

 very finest quality. The extensive collection of hardy evergreens by George 

 Taylor, embracing nineteen varieties, was very superior; hardly less can be 

 said of the stock by Mr. Husted. The fruit trees exhibited by him deserve 

 more than a passing notice, and too much praise cannot be awarded to his 

 justly superior specimens. No finer trees of the apple, pear, cherry, and peach, 

 — especially of the Wagener, — can be found. Of this last we found three-year- 

 olds bending under the weight of fruit. Your committee, from the specimens 

 before them, must express their opinion that no tree planter would be wise in 

 sending out of the State for a supply of fruit and ornamental trees while such 

 truly fine specimens can be found within its own borders. 



Committee. — H.Dale Adams, Kalamazoo; E. Buell, Kalamazoo; Charles 

 Alford, Lamont. 



Statement by George Taylor of Kalamazoo. — There is one form of plant- 

 ing evergreen trees which is now being entered into by many of our 

 farmers and citizens, and I have no doubt will commend itself the 

 more it is seen. I allude to the form of hedges, belts, clumps, and screens 

 A hedge of Norway Spruce placed a little way from the mansion bouse 

 forming a division betwixt the lawn and the grounds without, has 

 always a most pleasing effect. A fine specimen of this may be seen at the 

 beautiful residence of E. 0. Humphrey, Esq., Kalamazoo, on the north side of 

 the river, on the Gull road, about a mile from town. Belts of evergreens- 

 planted so as to shelter an orchard or other grounds, are now commended and 

 appreciated by all who have gone into it. And nothing has a finer efiect to a 

 house and the grounds adjacent, than clumps of evergreens judiciously placed' 

 in a park or lawn where a carriage drive winds its way in approaching the 

 the house. Screens planted and so placed as to form a shelter or wind-break, 

 in winter, for sheep and other farm stock, will soon be found to be indispens- 

 able, not only as a saving of feed, but to the improvement of the stock and the 

 profits resulting from it. 



The most popular evergreen tree, for which there is the greatest demand, is- 

 the Norway Spruce. Its fine, dark green, its thick and finished appearance, 

 with its symmetry of form, make it very desirable for both shelter and orna- 

 ment ; it can also be cut into any shape and size so as to suit the situation in 

 which it may be placed. 



The Scotch Pine is a rapid grower, and therefore should be placed on the 

 back part of the grounds; as an evergreen tree for forest and shelter, it is one 

 of the best; it will grow also on poor soil, and furnish good timber in twenty.- 

 years. 



