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M. Lefjo-ett — Flushing Spitzeiiberg, good. 



Jacob Taylor — Baldwin and Ivcd Canada, fine samples. 



A. E. Green — Ivhode Island Urecning, good, 



Thomas Wiiitcfield — lliiodo Island Greening, good. 



J. Graley — Ithode Island Greening, very good. 



0. S. Oxford — Fallowater, and Northern Spy, beautiful. 



J. W. Humphrey — Pomme Gris, excellent. 



G. 11. V. Horticultural Society — Jonathan, extra line, and rich dark color; 

 Fallowater, line; Fameuse, extra large and fine; American Golden llusset, 

 Wagener, Summer Sweet Paradise, Canada Keinette, Baldwin, perhaps best 

 plate. 



"W. ^X. Tracy — Esopus Spitzenberg, high-colored and very perfect; Dume- 

 low, very showy and fine; Autumn Strawberry, very fine and sound. 



Monroe Nursery — Peck's Pleasant, fine; Esopus Spitzenberg, fine. 



Emmons Buel — Wagener, extra fine and large; Northern Spy, largest on 

 exhibition ; Koxbury Kusset, Jonathan, extra fine. 



E. J. Shirts — American Golden llusset, good. 



E. Moody ct Sons — Mann Apple, very perfect. 



It has been impossible to do [)erfect justice to all exhibitors here. Many very 

 fine plates are not on these tables, we had room for only a few. We do not make 

 especial criticisms of poor specimens on exhibition, — there are some, as you 

 have all seen. We wish we could do more to stimulate people to show none but 

 good, nice specimens. I have overheard some here saying how much better 

 they could do if tliey had only tried. When picking fruit, hunt up the jierfect 

 .specimens and take extra care of them. Look for specimens of fair size of the 

 ■variety, perfect shape and color, without spot, worm, or blemish. Leave the 

 stem on. There are not a very large number of such apples now here on exhi- 

 bition, compared with the whole number, 1 have found but very few; only one 

 l^orthern Spy which fills my eye. Overgrown Greening, American Kusset, 

 Spy, are not the best. The highest colored fruit is not always the best, but 

 frequently the reverse. Quality of fruit to be first. A good point made by 

 Prof. Ingersoll. Our people v,'ill cultivate their eyes by looking for perfect 

 :specimens. 



This is a grand show of fruit for this time of year. I do not remember 



:to have ever attended a meeting of the State Pomological Society in which the 



people seemed to show greater interest. Oakland county has done herself great 



credit. We are progressing. Let no poor fruit hereafter ever find its way to 



-any of your fairs. 



W. J. BEAL, 

 BYROX G. STOUT, 

 E. H. REYNOLDS, 



CoDimiflee. 



Appropriate resolutions of gratitude to the people of Pontiac for their kind- 

 ness and cordial entertainment were unanimously passed, after which the society 

 adjourned to meet at South Haven in June. 



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