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GRAND DISPLAY OF FRUIT IN POMOLOGICAL HALL— SIX 

 HUNDRED AND FOUR ENTRIES. 



HOME FRUITS. 



Perhaps the easiest way to describe the hall will be to tell 

 first of our home fruits, beginning with the county collections, 

 for they were certainly very important features, and the fact 

 that the State Pomological Society, in its infancy as yet, has 

 been so signally seconded by fruit-growers, even from the far 

 off counties, is worthy of first mention. One thing is certain, 

 the people of Michigan may well feel assured that their State 

 is the fruit region of the West, and our home fruits are not 

 absorbed in the company of specimens grown abroad. 



The first in the county collections, and that which took the 

 first premium, was the one from Wayne county. 



It came some distance, and may well cause those who sent 

 it a real pride in thus getting the first premium, for it was 

 carefully selected, well arranged, and contained the largest 

 collection of apples in the hall, there being one hundred and 

 fifty-eight varieties. There were also twenty-seven varieties of 

 native grapes, and a fine display of fifteen varieties of foreign 

 grapes from Capt E. B. Ward's greenhouse. 



Kent county took the second premium for county collec- 

 tions, which is by no means a bad proof of the motto hanging 

 over its display: "Kent county claims a place in the Fruit 

 Belt." There were one-hundred and twenty-five varieties of 

 apples, sixteen of pears, fourteen of peaches, and a fine collec- 

 tion of canned fruits, some very large specimens of Black 

 Hamburg and White Fontainebleau (foreign) grapes, from the 

 •grapery of Mrs. Morris, in the city. 



