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us to occupy in expatiating upon these fine displays, so we pass to the next 

 table, where we find the products from the "open waters of Michigan." Yes, 

 gentlemen, apples from north of the great pine woods, put here by our very 

 esteemed friend George Parmelee of Grand Traverse ; also a lot from D. M. 

 Bagley, Lansing; J.W.Humphrey, Plymouth; Jas. H. Scott, Kent; E. J. 

 Shirts, Lansing ; L. B. Potter, Lansing ; J. H. English, Eaton ; H. B. Shank, 

 Lansing; Prof. W. J. Beal, Agricultural College, Lansing; Joel Andrews, 

 Saranac ; A. W. Slayton, Kent ; J. C. Bristol, Lansing; B. Hathaway, Cass ; 

 and we will add that our worthy Treasurer did not come here solely and singly 

 for your dollars, but that he brought with him and put upon exhibition a fine 

 specimen of a Lady apple. We pass to the next table, where we find our old 

 veteran's apples from Cascade, Kent county, — we mean Mr. Holt ; then Mr. 

 Carter, Lansing; J. Satterly, Greenville; E. L. Valley, Ionia ; Nowlen & Toles, 

 Benton Harbor ; J. N. Stearns, of Brigg's & Co., Kalamazoo ; F. M. Manning, 

 Paw Paw; Geo. W. Dickinson, Grand Kapids ; Hunter Savidge, Spring Lake. 

 This brings us to the last table at the farther end of the room, a collection put 

 here by the man of muscle from the South Haven Pomological Society, — we 

 mean H. E. Bidwell, — and another in the corner brought from Van Buren county 

 by our wide-awake pioneer friend W. H. Gregory. 



Our committee are constrained to speak particularly of a few lots,' but before 

 we say what we intend to, we will say that Lansing, or any other place may 

 grow and flourish amid luxury and posperity for years to come before she will 

 probably see such an array of such fruit of such a superior quality as is before 

 you here to-day. But yet, where there is so much there must be some lots a 

 a little finer or of better quality than others, and hence your committee would 

 select some four or five lots as being superior in quality ; and first of these must 

 come the collection from Grand Traverse, brought here by Geo. Parmelee ; next 

 comes the collection of W. H. Gregory, of Van Buren county; next 

 comes the collection of the South Haven Pomological Society; next comes the 

 collection of P. D. Sneathen, who exhibits his neighbors' with his. Mr. Sneathen 

 is from South Boston, Ionia county ; next comes J. W. Humphrey and others 

 of Plymouth, Wayne county. We will next speak of a few superior specimens 

 found in some other lots; a beautiful Belmont in the collection of J. H. Eng- 

 lish, Ionia county, sent in by Joel Andrews of Saranac. Mr. Hathaway had 

 some very fine Kings in his lot. 



And now having gone through the lists as they stand before you, having 

 made brief mention of the exhibitors, we will add a few words in the way of 

 comment and with this we close. 1st. We recommend the adoption of the fol- 

 lowing resolution : 



Resolved, That this Society tender their thanks to those who have added so 

 much to the pleasure and interest of this meeting by burdening themselves with 

 such a task as to put this array of fruit and flowers before us. 



Now, ladies and gentlemen, is it not apparent to all that somebody has taken 

 some time and trouble to make this an interesting and pleasant occasion ? 



Can you be made to believe that our friend Mr. Gregory would go into his 

 cellar, pack carefully over two barrels of fruit, bring it all the way from Pine 

 Grove to Lansing, merely for what he could expect it would pay him? No, 

 gentlemen, he had the interest of this Society in his heart, and he must do 

 something. There is that in the business or pursuit of fruitgrowing that makes 

 men large-hearted and social, and this is what's the matter with our friend 



