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Mr. L. R. Smith has been a resident of Antrim county for 18 years. He 

 •was an old dealer in nursery stock, many years ago, at Grand Rapids. From 

 the nursery at that place, which he sold to G. C. Nelson, Esq., he brought 

 trees to Antrim, and here exhibited the fruit gathered from those trees. 

 Among this collection were ten varieties of pears, chief of which were the 

 White Doyenne and Stevens' Genesee. His apples were the Spy, King, 

 Greening, Fall Pippin, etc. Other gentlemen from Antrim were Richard 

 Knight and J. J. McLaughlin, and their fruit told its own story. The county 

 has a water front on the west, and is penetrated by the G. R. & I. Railroad. 



THE COLLECTION OF H. W. CURTIS. 



Though time and space warn us to be brief, we cannot close without men- 

 tion of the fine individual collection of H. W. Curtis, Esq., of Old Mission, — 

 the President elect of the Society for 1874. His Golden Russet was number 

 one. Let fruit cultivators remember what he says about this variety, — that it 

 is the money-making variety for him. He believes in it as a profitable market 

 sort. We recollect hearing Judge Wells, of Kalamazoo, say the same thing. 

 The next three best tested sorts, with Mr. Curtis, are the Greening, Baldwin, 

 and Roxbury Russet. The Tallman Sweet has no superior as a sweet winter 

 sort. He intends to test the Red Canada. l\tr. Curtis believes that there is 

 profit in quinces, and he has ten varieties of peaches at the fair; also an 

 assortment of pears, at the head of which is the Flemish Beauty. 



THE TOWN OF EAST BAY. 



We have noticed the four counties represented, and the two townships com- 

 peting, Peninsula and Leelanaw, but justice requires us to note briefly the 

 fruit from East Bay, Grand Traverse county. This town, as its name indicates, 

 is on the east side of the Bay, with Acme and Yuba for small villages. There 

 were many individual collections from this town. 0. S. Francis, A. T. Allen, 

 W. H. Fife, W. Thacker, W. M. Stites, John Pulcipher, John Black, and other 

 gentlemen whose names appear in the premium list, proved by their exhibi- 

 tions that East Bay township is one of the very best for fruit in this section of 

 country. 



James Lee's collection, from Leelanaw, is truthfully described by the blue 

 ribbon, the first premium badge. 



The splendid plate of Delaware grapes, from J. E. Savage, of Old Mission, 

 was number one. 



John F. Drew, Sen., Old Mission, was one of the largest and best individual 

 exhibitors. His Bailey Sweet, Snow, Russet, were prime. 



The collections of A. M. Smith, 25 plates; Hugh Prouty, 10 plates; A. P. 

 Lancaster, were among the best. Indeed, the question was constantly coming , 

 np, How can we decide which was best where they were all so good? 



An assortment of apples, peaches, pears, grapes, etc., from '"Mount Rams- 

 dell," showed the good culture of the Judge, the persevering, energetic, inde- 

 fatigable President for 1873. 



THE LESSON OF THE FRUIT FAIR. 



The moral of this section of the fair was this: Fewer varieties and larger 

 orchards. Stick to a few standard sorts, and don't waste toil and time on 

 worthless kinds. Plant orchards of a few winter varieties, and the Traverse 

 section will soon be to Michigan what the Niagara section has been to the 

 State of New York,— the Great Headquarters of the Winter Apple. 



The display of oil paintings and other pictures is very fine. One drawing, by 



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