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I will now give a memorandum of the names of some of the exhibitors and 

 frnits presented at the exhibition on the 28th and 29th of September, 1847. 



Dr. Cobb, of Detroit, exhibited Albert Gallatin, Teton de Venus, Orange 

 Cling, Ked Cheek Melocoton, and Seedling peaches ; also some Isabella grapes. 



James Dougall, of Amherstburg, C. W., now of Windsor, C. W., where he 

 has a nursery, exhibited Isabella, Catawba, Black Cluster, Fox, White Mus- 

 catine, Golden Chasselas, Esperione, Black Frontignan, Green Swiss, and 

 Sweet Water grapes. Purple Gage, Coe's Golden Drop, and Damson plums. 

 Red Rareripe, President, and Monstrous Pompone peaches. Passe Colmar, 

 White Doyenne, and Easter Beurre pears. Ribston Pippin, Alexander, Haw- 

 thornden, Pennock's Red Winter, Small Pomme Gris, Domine, Keswick Cod- 

 lin, Flushing Spitzenburg, Large Pomme Gris, Labute, White Calville, Royal 

 Russet, Monstrous Pippin, Bourassa, American Summer Pearmain, Pomme de 

 Neige, Baldwin, King of the Pippins, Esopus Spitzenburg, Male Carle, or 

 Charles apple, Bullock's Pippin, Scarlet Pearmain, and Rosseau apples. 



Charles Hastings, of Troy, Oakland county, exhibited Virgalieu, Bleeker's 

 Meadow, Marie Louise, Summer Bon Chretien, Autumn Bergamot, and Stevens' 

 Genesee Pears. Pound Royal, Summer Queen, Summer Pippin, Tallman's 

 Sweet, Wine, Yellow Bellefleur, Holland Pippin, Baldwin, Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, Yellow Newtown Pippin, Detroit Red, Monstrous Pippin, Swaar, Westfield 

 Seek-No-Further, Twenty-Ounce Pippin, Doctor, Court Pendu, Plat, Roxbury 

 Russett, Pomme d'Neige, Pound Sweeting, Romanite, Golden Sweet, French 

 Pippin, Hubbardston Nonsuch, and Esopus Spitzenberg Apples. Orange, 

 Portugal, and common quince, Alexander grapes, and Pineapple peaches. 



J. R. Williams, Constantine, exhibited Buffum pears, Maiden's Blush, Holland 

 Pippin, Pomme d' Neige, Rhode Island Greening, Fall Pippin, and several 

 varieties of apples not named. 



Hubbard & Davis, Troy, exhibited Pineapple Cling, Incomparable, Orange 

 Cling, Albert Gallatin, Red Cheek Melocoton, Columbia, and Mellish's Favorite 

 peaches. Also a large collection of apples, and a few pears and grapes. 



James Allen, Pontiac, exhibited Twenty-Ounce Pippin, Fall Pippin, Detroit 

 Red, Spitzenberg, Rhode Island Greening, Cheseborough Russet, Golden Pip- 

 pin, and sevei'al other varieties of apples. French Jargonelle, Stevens' Genesee, 

 and English Jargonelle pears. 



Jabez Warner, Plymouth, from the orchard of a neighbor, Twenty-Ounce 

 Pippin, and several other varieties of apples. 



Rev. Mr. Ruggles, of Pontiac, apples and quinces. 



James M. Edmonds, Ypsilanti, Catawba and Isabella grapes. 



Bela Hubbard, Detroit, apples, pears, plums, quinces, and grapes. 



Linus Cone, Troy, collection of apples. 



There were many other exhibitors, but the names of exhibitors and the kinds 

 and varieties exhibited already mentioned will suffice to show us what fruits 

 were grown in the several localities, and by whom they were raised. 



Many excellent varieties of fruit have been added to our list since that day. 



In addition to the names of exhibitors already given, there were at subse- 

 quent exhibitions, in other years, several persons who exhibited large collections 

 of apples, pears, peaches, plums, and grapes. Among them I may mention 

 E. D. Lay, of Ypsilanti; 0. M. Bronson, Waterford ; B. G. Stimson, Detroit; 

 William B. Wesson, Detroit; A. Whitehead, of Pontiac, and J. L. Travers, 

 Mount Clemens. 



Judge Barker, of Plymouth, made collections from the orchards in that town, 



