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STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Class JfJf. — For commercial plant house or range of houses : John Sirttle> 

 Grand Eapids, diploma; T. I. Eenwick, second premium. 



Class Jf5. — For general nursery: I.E. Ilgenfritz & Co., Monroe, diploma; 

 N. P. Husted, Lowell, Kent county, second premium; Eeynolds, Lewis & Co., 

 Monroe, third premium ; L. G. Bragg & Co., Kalamazoo, honorable mention. 



Total number of entries, 61. 



After a brief consultation the committee agreed upon the following scale of 

 points. This scale enabled them to examine and record their yiews of places 

 examined with accuracy and despatch. As we have never met with a scale of 

 points in any reports of this or other State or in any work on horticulture, it 

 may be interesting to put this upon record : 



Soil -- 



Protection 



Market 



Variety and Arrangement 



Culture .- -. 



Pruning 



Health and absence of insects. 



Fruitf ulness 



Test orchard .- .-. 



5-1 



10 

 5 

 25 

 15 

 15 

 20 



"io 



The standard for greenhouses was as follows: Cisterns and tanks 10, foun- 

 dation 10, number and size of rooms 10, glass and setting 5, screens 5, white- 

 washing 5, sasli 5, ventilation 5, heating apparatus and economy of fuel 20, 

 arrangements for propagating 10, potting room 5, convenience and taste in 

 arranging 10, protection from winds 5, market 10, best and greatest number of 

 varieties 20, health 15, freedoni from insects 15. 



It will be noticed that no two sets of these numbers are alike, and none of 

 them sum up just one hundred. 



In considering the soil, we noticed the nature, condition, depth, subsoil, kind 

 of drainage, preparation, the stumps, stones, hollows, knolls, and adaptation to 

 the kind of fruit upon it. On protection we mark that by lakes, trees, altitude, 

 exposure, average and extremes of temperature. On market we note the time 

 distance, cost, and convenience. Under variety and arrangement we note the 

 best for our climate, or for the particular location visited; great number of 

 varieties, arrangement for ease of picking, packing, and culture; distance 

 apart, vacancies and evenness. JSm^qx culture we note the kind of culture, depth, 

 when and how fertilized, expense, and tools used. Under irruning we note 

 thinning, staking, trellis, how and when grafted, form of trees, and heads. 

 Under liealth and freedom from insects we note size, length of shoots or canes, 

 mildew, blight, yellows, stockiness, kinds of insects, methods of destroying, and 

 expense, tinder fruitfulness, quantity, quality, — past, present, and prospective. 

 The test orchard, or sample orchard or grounds, were thought to be of much 

 value to a nursery, that people about to purchase may see what they like or 

 dislike. 



Each member was furnished with a copy of the above standard scale of 



