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MAINE FRUIT AT THE BAY STATE FAIR. 

 By Henry W. Brown, Newburg. 



The officers and members of the Maine State Pomological Society 

 collected and sent an exhibition of apples to the Bay State Fair, held 

 in Boston the second week in October, 1H89, of which I had the 

 charge. The collections and display of apples were fine, being 

 shown in a very high, attractive, well lighted building with plenty 

 of room. The number of entries in the apple department was large, 

 there being several entries in the collections and a very large number 

 of entries of single plates. The apples were all shown on large flat 

 plates with just twelve specimens on a plate. This feature added 

 much to the fiu( display. The l9,rgest collection was exhibited by 

 Warren Fenno of Revere, Mass., and consisted of fifty-two plate* 

 of apples and pears. The first premium of $50 was awarded to- 

 him. The Maine State Pomological Society in this department had 

 twenty-eight plates and received the second premium of $30. The 

 Society also took premiums on ten single plates as follows : Charles 

 S. Pope, Baldwins, $3 ; E. H. Keniston, Fameuse, $3, Porter, $3, 

 Tompkin's King, $3, R. I. Greening, $2 ; A. N. Goodrich, Garden 

 Royal, $3 ; C. B. Nottage, Pumpkin Sweet, f 2 ; H. W. Brown, 

 Maiden's Blush, $2 ; Mother, 3 ; Talman's Sweet, $3. 



There were apples in the collection grown in difl'erent parts of the 

 State, among which was a plate of Mcintosh Red from Franklin 

 county. There was no plate in the entire exhibition of fruit that 

 attracted so much attention from visitors as this. It was superla- 

 tively fine. 



In addition to this report I will call attention to some of the 

 exhibits I noted while at the fair. The display of pears was very 

 large and fine. There must have been nearly four hundred plates, 

 from the smallest Seckel to the large Duchess. Of the latter variety 

 there were twenty-eight plates, from which it was not an easy matter 

 to pick out the best. The committee selected eight plates which they 

 considered the best, and put them in the scales in order to get the 

 three heaviest, on which to place the premiums. The lightest tipped 

 the scales at thirteen pounds two ounces and the heaviest at thirteen 

 pounds four ounces. Four of the heaviest on this plate weighed one 

 and one-fourth pounds each. The Louise Bonne de Jersey came next 

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