HISTOIIY OF Furrr EXHIBITS AT STATK FAII: 



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Separate lists and awards for professional and amateur fruit 

 growers were maintained, though the basis of distinction betuecn 

 the two was not made clear. Kmphasis was laid upon collections 

 of the different fruits without reference to varieties rather than 

 upon single plates of the different kinds. Apples, pears, and 

 grapes were most prominent in these premium lists. Premiums 

 were also offered for seedling fruits, but the judges possessed 

 sntlicient courage to withhold awards in many cases on the 



FIG. 175. THE GRANGE EXHIBIT THAT WON FIRST PRIZE IN 1912 



grounds of lack of merit. Xo variety names were mentioned 

 until 1876, when Ellwanger and Barry received a prize of $2.00 

 for a plate of " Apple or Orange quinces." In 1877 a new sec- 

 tion entitled, " Single Dishes, Open to All," was added and a 

 prize of $2.00 was given for plates, or dishes, of the following 

 varieties of apples, pears, and grapes: Baldwin, King of Tomp- 

 kins County, Northern Spy, Rhode Island Greening, Roxbnrv 

 Russet, Twenty Ounce, Esopus Spitzenburg, Red Canada ; Bart- 

 lett, Beurre d'Anjou, Beurre Clairgeau, Beurre Bosc, Duchesse 



