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The largest number of varieties in any one collection is that of IST. P. Husted, 

 of Lowell, Kent county, which contains Coe's Golden Drop, Sheldon, Lom- 

 bard, Washington, Prince's Yellow Gage, Damson, and one other variety; also 

 a seedling of medium size and excellent profit which is characterized by Mr. 

 H. as follows : " Tree, a strong grower, very hardy and productive," with 

 which qualities the committee deem it worthy of trial. 



The next collection in point of merit would seem to be that of C. T. Bry- 

 ant, of South Haven, containing Bradshaw, Lombard, and Yellow Egg, all of 

 which were well grown. Collections were also exhibited by J. F. Doty, Wm. 

 Gates, of Benton Harbor; also two other small collections by parties unknowa 

 to the committee. 



A seedling was shown by J. Windoes, of South Haven, which is claimed to 

 be valuable because supposed to be exempt from attacks of "black knot." 

 The flavor, however, will not bear a high commendation. 



The committee on peaches reported, through Mr. Adams, that the largest 

 and best collection is by G. W. Griffin, of South Haven, for extra fine speci- 

 mens of Hale's Early, Wheeler's Early, Barnard, and Yellow Kareripe ; second 

 best collection by T. A. Bixby, including, besides most of the above, the 

 Jaques Rareripe, George IV., and Stanley's Late. 



The best Hale's Early, single variety, is exhibited by Judge J. G. Ramsdell, 

 of Grand Traverse, and the second by E. J. Shirts, of Oceana county. Best 

 Crawford's Early, L S. Linderman, Casco, and second best H. J. Lindermaa, 

 Casco. 



The committee say the very best variety on exhibition, in their judgment, is 

 the Early Crawford. They also desire to make special mention of some splen- 

 did specimens of peaches exhibited by Mathew Hunter, of Lowell, growa oa 

 an elevation of 280 feet above Grand River, showing conclusively that a high 

 location was abundant proof against the lowest range of the mercury during 

 the unprecedented cold of last winter. Exceedingly fine specimens were also 

 grown in Oceana county, under similar circumstances as to location ; and still 

 further, noble specimens were shown by Judge Ramsdell, 190 miles north of 

 this place, the finest Hale's Early here shown, in fact. They were grown, the 

 Judge states, on the dividing line between those trees that were killed belovr 

 and those that were uninjured above. Still finer specimens are grown farther 

 np the ridge, but were not sufficiently advanced for this exhibition. The com- 

 mittee were indebted to Mr. Hale, lately returned from California, for very fiae 

 specimens of Crawford's Late, grown in that State, but must say that they are 

 far eclipsed by the same variety grown in South Haven. 



Judge Ramsdell, from the committee on grapes, reported that the committee 

 liad designated the quality of the specimens examined by them, by numerals 

 from one to four, c'orresponding to the classes "superior," "fair," "medium," 

 and " poor." 



They affix figure 1 to the lonas, Concords, Delaware, and Ives Seedling, 

 shown by C. Engle, of Paw Paw ; to the Concords, Delawares, and Hartfords, 

 from Lawton, — name of exhibitor unknown ; to the Concords of JST. P. Husted, 

 of Lowell, and one and one-half to his Ive's Seedling, to Toles' Rogers' 15, 

 to Wm. Potter's Ive's Seedling, to the Kalamazoo, Israella, Allen's Hybrid, and 

 Rebecca, of Mr. Davis, of Kalamazoo, to Linderman's Ives' Seedling, to Ohil- 

 son's Delaware and Clinton, and to Hartfords and Clintons of parties whose 

 names they could not ascertain ; Husted's Delaware and Muscatine, Linder- 

 man's Concord and Israella, D. Winan's Delaware and Concord, E. M. Potter's 



