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to have made a healthy and vigorous growth. The long rows 

 of uniform trees give high promise of future productiveness. 

 It can scarcely fail to become one of the best orchards in the 

 township. The varieties planted are 160 Mountain Rose, 75 

 Smock, 25 Crawford's Late, 25 Crawford's Early, 25 Hales, and 

 75 Old Mixon. 



Mr. Orrin Douglass, StahFs Bay, near Fruitport, enters a 

 peach orchard j^lanted last spring. It is at present surrounded 

 by timber, being a new clearing. It contains 1,200 trees, 

 mostly branching very low. They are very vigorous trees. 

 Buckwheat, sown between, grew almost as high as the trees. 

 This, probably, was a good precaution to prevent an over- 

 growth. The trees liave now completed their terminal buds, 

 and the wood is ripened to the tips, although the leaves remain 

 perfectly green. The varieties are good : COO Early Crawford, 

 250 Early Barnard, 250 Smock, 50 Early Hale, 100 Stump the 

 World, etc. Mr. Douglass, with but little help, has cleared 18 

 acres this season, and has raised an abundance of corn and 

 buckwheat, besides planting the orchard. Such industry and 

 perseverance deserve the highest commendation, and but for 

 the fact that 300 out of 1,500 trees died, and the newness and 

 consequent imperfect preparation of the land, we should have 

 accorded this the first premium. Soil, sandy with clay subsoil. 



Messrs. Cutler & Savidge and Mr. Geo. Seagrove entered 

 their orchards, but when your committee called, Mr. Seagrove 

 was absent at the State Pomological Exhibition, so that we 

 could not ascertain tlie particulars as to the amount borne by 

 their orchards and vineyards this year, and nnist therefore pass 

 them by with the remark that these are the best cultivated 

 orchards on Spring Lake. Especially is this the case with 

 those of Messrs. Cutler & Savidge, Mr. Seagrove evidently 

 devoting his chief attention to them, somewhat at the expense 

 of his own. 



Mr. Jas. B. Souie's Concord vineyard was planted in 186G. 

 It has borne a good crop this year, and has made very long 

 growth, one vine measuring 19 feet 



