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small wood, which wo deem objectionable. The orchard is 

 thrifty and promising. 



Mr. Job Sessions enters his pear orchard, planted with 50 

 pear trees this spring. His pears appear to be all alive and 

 doing remarkably well for the first season. This orchard well 

 deserves the first premium awarded it. 



Rev. Hiram Beckwith, residing between Spring Lake and 

 Crockery, has the best quince orchard we have seen, and being 

 the only one entered, is properly awarded the first premiam. 

 It contains 200 quince trees, planted three years ago. Those 

 pruned by Mr. Ganzhorn are doing well, the plan being to 

 encourage the growth of several limbs rather than numerous 

 slender shoots. 



Mr. Chas. E. Soule's peach-bearing orchard, planted in 1863, 

 has done admirably. It contains 300 trees. His Barnard trees 

 averaged him $10 a tree this year; his Old Mixon, $5; hia 

 Seedlings, $2; his Early York, $1, and his Orawfords, nothing. 

 This little orchard yielded $700 in 1868 ; $100 in 1869, and 

 $400 last year. It is a miscellaneous orchard with regard to 

 varieties, but its bearing qualities must be regarded as yery 

 superior. 



Mr. George Seagrove has sold a considerable quantity of 

 peaches from his orchard, even this year, but so far as we could 

 ascertain it was less than the amount sold by Mr. C. B. Soule. 

 Both are good bearing orchards. 



Mr. Thomas Petty's peach orchard, planted in 1867, contains 

 about 700 trees. It is located on the south side of a hill, and 

 its fine, even rows of trees contrast with the white sand upon 

 which they grow so luxuriantly, presenting a scene from the 

 lake of surpassing beauty, being washed by the water below 

 and tipped with clear blue sky above. The trees have per- 

 fected their growth, and the wood is ripened to the tips. The 

 growth has been ample, and the show of double buds indicatea 

 a heavy crop for next season. 



Mr. Walter Sinclair, the zealous Secretary of the Western 

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