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Mr. Eenst : Pears — The Khtland. 



Mr. Heaver : Peift-s— TheT yson, Julienne, Dearborn Seedling, Gobault Blood- 

 good, Autumn, Superb. Plums— The Washington and Blue Plum. 



Mr. Cranch : Summer Bcrgaoiot. 



Mr. Scarborough : Pears— Dearborn Seedling, Julienne. Apples— The 

 Maiden's Blush, Summer Queen, Summer Rose. 



Mrs. BiCKHAM : The Dearborn Seedling and another, a Seedling. 



Mr. TuRREL : Apples— Bough Apples and Summer Queen. Pears— Jargonelle 

 English. 



Mr. Cook : Plums — Flushing Green Gage. 



Mr. TuRREL also exhibited a branch of Garbansa, from Spain, commonly called 



the " Coffee Pea." 



REPORT OP FRUIT COMMITTEE. 



Pears— Kirtland's Seedling— Specimens from Mr. Ernst in perfection ; nearly 

 equal to the famed Seckel, its parent ; most delicious ; rather above medium ; 

 ripening earlier than the Seckel ; a good grower and bearer. 



yj^son— Beautifully colored, rich yellow and bright red ; very tender and with, 

 a great deal of sugar ; very good. 



Washington Plum — From Mr. Heaver— Magnificently large, and the flavor is 

 generally well known as being good. 



Horse Apple or Fall Queen — Of great size, and now beginning to be a great 

 market fruit, and of good flavor for a large and coarse Apple. 



Yellow Egg Plum — Rather indifferent in flavor, at least not ranking with the 

 best — chiefly for cooking. 



Green Gage — Well known as the most delicious of all Plums. 



Stone Pear — Only fit for market, which is paying the public at large a poor 

 compliment. 



Emperor Plum — Grand and fine as usual here. 



The .apple from Mr. Pye, for a name, is Summer Sweet. 



Mr. Jackson's Seedling Pear — Medium prolific, and a good juicy fruit. 



Jargonelle English — A poor fruit in this climate. 



Princess Imperial Gage — Well known as a valuable fruit; but little behind the 

 Green Gage in excellence. 



The fruit tables were crowded with splendid specimens of our orchard pro- 

 ducts, while flowers of the richest colors lent beauty to the exhibition. 



Apt Answer. — An English nobleman once sent his stupid son 

 to Eowland Hill in order that he might be educated, accompanied 

 with a note, in which his father said of his hopeful.: " I am confi- 

 dent that he has talents, but they are hidden in a napkin." The 

 eccentric but shrewd divine kept the youth a few days under his 

 care and then sent him back to his father with the following laconic 

 fiiessage : " I have shaken the napkin at 'all corners' and found 

 nothing in it." 



