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Secretary Thompson thus characterized the display: ''Never before was 

 there such a disphiy in northern Michigan. Fruit is the great feature of the 

 show. It eclipsed all departments, though the vegetaljles crowd closely the 

 fruit. But the October sun has done well its work. Such coloring is only 

 the work of the Master's pencil. There is no mistake about the paint on 

 these apples, peaches, plums, grapes and flowers. The sight is a truly mag- 

 nificent one, and we congratulate all concerned upon their really fine show 

 of fruit. The pioneers may well feel proud of their work. Ten years ago 

 the modern varieties of fruit were scarcely known here, now the catalogue is 

 full and overflowing. This exhibition stamps the Traverse country, meaning 

 thereby the counties borderiug on Traverse bay, as a great apple country. 

 The apple, the king of fruits, has here found its home, a congenial clime." 



For so new a region the exhibit, especially of fruits, is very exjtensive. varied 

 and excellent, and there appears to be no way to more effectively characterize 

 it than by quoting the committee's report, as follows : 



Best peck of Twenty Ounce apples, Jas. Lee ; best peck of Baldwin, J.Lee; 

 best peck of Northern Spy, J. Pulcipher; best peck of Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, Roxbury Russet, Talniau Sweet, Maiden's. Blush, Golden Russet, H. W. 

 Curtis; Chenango, L. W. Case. 



Best plate of Northern Spy, J. Pulcipher. 



Best collection of fruit grown by one exhibitor, variety, quality and suc- 

 cession considered, Jas. Lee 1st, W. Mebert 2d. 



Best peaches, A. K. Montague. 



Best seedling apples, 0. S. Francis. 



Best plate of grapes, J. E. Savage. 



Best plate of quinces, A. K. Montague. 



Best collection of canned fruits, Mrs. T. T. Bates. 



Your committee would respectfully mention the fine collection of fruit 

 exhibited by Hon. Perry Hannah ; also the collections of Messrs. Curtis, Lan- 

 caster, Fife, Miller, Dunlap and others. We also mention fine seedling 

 peaches, raised by Messrs. Dunlap, Lee and Hurlbut. There were represented 

 in individual collections of apples sixty-two varieties, besides many not 

 named; also many fine pears, plums, peaches, and Siberian crabs, not entered 

 for premiums. 



W. Mebert, H. 0. Mack, L. R. Smith, T. A. Ferguson, N. R. Haight, com- 

 mittee. 



The undersigned, committee on county and township collections of fruits, 

 respectfully report as follows: 



They find collections on exhibition from Grand Traverse and Benzie 

 counties. 



From Grand Traverse they find a collection embracing ninety-two varieties 

 of apples, eleven of pears, seventeen of peaches, seven of plums, six of 

 grapes, one of quinces, two of cranberries and one of butternuts. 



From Benzie county the collection embraced forty-eight varieties of apples^ 

 nine of pears, eight of peaches, twelve of plums, four of grapes, seven of rasp- 

 berries, one of currants and two of strawberries; the lasc three artificially 

 preserved. 



These two collections compete very evenly, so far as the quality of the 

 specimens are concerned ; and, moreover, they both include the great mass 

 of our best known and most desirable varieties, so that the real difference 

 in the value of the two (made up as such difference is, in the main, of 



