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Neil Munro, who captured more prizes than any other Michigan fruit man 

 at the New Orleans exposition, sends down from Elk Rapids above fifty vari- 

 eties of apples. There are no worms or blemishes about this fruit. The 

 .specimens are of even size, and Mr. Scott, of the State Horticultural society, 

 who unpacked and displayed this collection for Mr. Munro, said : " This 

 man knows how to select specimens as very few do in our State. No wonder 

 he takes premiums, for he deserves them." Northern Michigan furnishes 

 the finest specimens of apples in the world, and Neil Munro knows how to 

 exhibit them. 



A fine show of grapes and pears from E. H. Scott, of Ann Arbor; J. C. 

 Sharp has twenty plates of pears and H. F. Thomas thirty varieties of 

 peaches and grapes from Jackson county ; the Benzie County Horticultural 

 Society spreads 116 plates of apples and twenty-five plates of other fruits. 

 The Grand River Valley Horticultural Society exhibits from Grand Rapids 

 and vicinity a wide range of fruits, put in place by S. M. Pearsall; A. G. 

 Gulley of South Haven shows 250 plates of fruit in packages, as shipped by 

 the growers of western Van Buren county; these are peaches, pears, grapes 

 and quinces. From Wayland, Allegan county, a collection of forty plates, 

 principally apples, is shown, sent by Dr. 0. E. Davison, secretary of the 

 Wayland Horticultural Society. Wexford County Horticultural Society, 

 although a young organization and situated very far north in the State, is 

 delightfully represented by a collection of apples, pears and grapes, one hun- 

 dred and twenty plates in all, and highly colored like all the fruit from the 

 new orchards of the new country. The condition of ripeness of the grape 

 shows that the people of Cadillac and vicinity need not do without even the 

 more delicious fruits of their own growing. Wm. A. Brown, the veteran 

 exhibitor from Benton Harbor, although unable to be present at the fair, 

 forwarded a fine exhibit of fruit to represent him. His selections are always 

 admirably made and the county of Berrien can usually furnish a large variety 

 of the best to choose from. Lenawee County Horticultural Society, by its 

 secretary, D. G. Edmiston and its treasurer, E. W. Allis, of Adrian, fills a 

 goodly area of the table room with a collection of sixty-two plates of apples, 

 thirty-one plates of pears, ten plates of peaches and thirty plates of grapes, 

 all carefully named and of distinct varieties. C. A. Sessions, with the aid of 

 E. J. Shirts, of Shelby, gathered the exhibit for Oceana county, and contain- 

 ing as it does eighteen varieties of plums, attracts a good deal of attention. 

 Mr. W. R. Wadsworth of Lapeer has a collection of 110 plates which makes 

 an attractive display. In it are seventy-eight plates of apples, eleven plates 

 of pears, fourteen plates of plums and seven plates of peaches. 



