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mation as ■was aflforded to it. The entry cards were not to be 

 considered alone for the instruction of the viewing com- 

 mittees, nor could they be considered as regulators that would 

 control the judgment or decisions of the members of such 

 committees. On the contrary, they should be explicit in giv- 

 ing all the information possible. If a member exhibited fruit 

 in a certain class, the entry card, when it is placed on a collec- 

 tion or a single variety, should contain, first, the class in which 

 the article was placed, second, the name of the exhibitor, who 

 had grown the fruit, his place or residence, and the number of 

 varieties in the collection. The exhibitors should be required 

 to name, and place upon the fruits themselves the name of each 

 fruit shown. This would prove satisfectory. lu cases of 

 single fruits, the name of the variety should be on the entry 

 card. In its fruit exhibitions, the State society has a pomolog- 

 ical committee, whose duty it is to go over, with the superin- 

 tendent of the department, the frnits and correct their names, 

 and see that they are correct, before they are submitted to the 

 viewing committees. When fruit is thus exhibited, the visitors 

 gain some knowledge of what the best fruits are like when 

 they are grown to perfection, as it is supposed the exhibitors 

 only show their best samples. In this way fruit-growers who 

 look over the exhibition gain information ; they also know, 

 without any inquiry, where varieties are to be found which 

 they may desire to possess. With regard to the press, it is not 

 every reporter that is skilled enough in fruit to name at a 

 glance the varieties which he sees, and it is most unsatisfac- 

 tory to have to report that some No. 12 or No. 15 were fine 

 collections of apples, or peaches, or pears, as the entry may 

 be, but not to be able to give the least information as to what 

 varieties composed them, who exhibited them, or where they 

 were grown. Hence an entry card containing nothing but the 

 number was of no earthly use to any one but the secretary 

 and the viewing committee. 



