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is very encouraging in regard to new and important varieties, 

 as indicating what careful culture will do for them, 



THE SPRING LAKE GRAPES. 



Messrs. Savidge, Seagrove, and Petty desired the world 

 should learn that Spring Lake had other attractions besides 

 her magnetic waters, and that the day was near at hand when 

 the hanks of their lovely lake would be literally vine-clad, and 

 that the grape is to be as common there as on the islands of 

 Lake Erie. Their exhibition consisted of about twenty boxes 

 of different varieties, the whole weighing about two hundred 

 pounds, and it was a tempting and luscious show. All were 

 pleased to notice, by the blue ribbon, that this collection had 

 won the sweepstakes premium. 



The Committee on Grapes — Mr. Quintus of Grand Kapids, 

 Mr. Taylor of Kalamazoo, and Mr. Bradfield of Ada — made 

 the following awards : Best collection of grapes, first pre- 

 mium, Hunter Savidge of Spring Lake ; best Delav/are, first 

 premium, G. W. Dickinson of Grand Eapids town ; best Clin- 

 ton, first premium, Charles Alford of Ottawa county ; second 

 best, Henry Allen of Paris ; best Concord, first premium. 

 Hunter Savidge of Spring Lake; second best, President Griggs 

 of Paris; best Isabella, first premium, G. W. Dickinson; sec- 

 ond best, Thomas Petty of Spring Lake ; best Rogers' Hybrid, 

 George Seagrove of Spring Lake; best foreign variety, — the 

 Black Hamburg, — Geo. Kendall, Grand Eapids ; best Catawba, 

 TV. I. Blakely, Grand Eapids ; second best, G. W. Dickinson. 

 Mr. Quintus, in his report, made a valuable suggestion that 

 hereafter all exhibitors of grapes should be required to place 

 their samples upon plates, in order that they might be exam- 

 ined the more closely. 



OTHER EXHIBITORS. 



One of the largest exhibitors was Mr. Charles Alford of 

 Talmadge, who has an orchard on the highest solid land of 

 Ottawa county, containing over 100 varieties of apples, over 



