31 



Best display of Cut Flowers, grown by non- professional, Mrs. Emily Clark, 



Sheffield, $3 



2d do., Miss Ellen Pixley, Great Banington, 2 



Best Floral Design, Mrs. E. C. Ticknor, Alford, 3 



2d do. , Mrs. Horace Z. Cande, Sheffield, 2 



Best Collection of Pansies. Mrs. J. M. Mackie, Great Barrington, 2 



2d do. , Mrs. Ralph Little, Sheffield, 1 



Best Collection of Verbenas. Mrs. William I. Walker, Great Barrington, 2 



2d do., Mrs. W. W. Norton, Great Barrington, 1 



Best Collection of Roses, Miss Jennie Andrews, Sheffield, 2 



2d do., Miss Hattie L. Langdon, Great Barrington, 1 



Best Collection of Geraniums. Mrs. C. H. Nichols. Richmond, 2 



2d do. , Mrs Emily Clark, Sheffield, 1 



Best Collection of Foliage Plants, Mrs. J. M. Mackie, Great Barrington, 2 



4d do., W. H. Bolton, Alford. 1 



Best Collection of Asters, Mrs. O. E. Clark, Sheffield, 2 



2d do., Sadie A. Little, Sheffield, 1 



Best Collection of Gladiolus, Mrs. E. C. Ticknor, Alford, 2 



2d do., Mrs. Ralph Little, Sheffield, 1 



Best Collection of Wild Flowers, 131 varieties, Mrs. E. Balch, Sheffield. 2 



2d do., Mrs. Flint Smith, Sheffield, 1 



DISCRETIONAKY. 



Potted Plants, by non-professionals, Mrs. Ralph Little, Sheffield, 1 



Potted Plants, by non-professionals, Mrs. J. N. Warner, Sheffield, 1 



Potted Plants, Mrs. S. H. Haskell, Egremont, 1 



Cut Flowers, by non-professionals, Mrs. H. L. Rowe, Egremont, 1 

 Cut Flowers, by non-professionals. Mrs. Henry Dresser, Great Barrington, 1 



Floral Designs, Mrs. J. M. Mackie, Great Barrington, 1 



Floral Designs, Mrs. C. H. Nichols, Richmond, 1 



Wild Flowers, Mrs. Mary Huggins, Sheffield, 1 



Wild Flowers. Mrs. Frank Crippen, Sheffield, , 1 



Wild Flowers, Sadie A. Little, Sheffield, 1 



Wild Flowers, Mrs. L. H. Boardman, Sheffield, 1 

 Phlox, Libbie Boardman, Sheffield, 



Night Blooming Cereus, Mary E. Kellogg, Sheffield, 1 



Black Hollyhock, Mrs. C. M. Smith. Pittsfield, 1 

 Sweet Peas, A. R. Turner, Great Barrington, 

 Dahlias. Mrs. C. C. Beecher, Great Barrington, 



Coxcomb. Fred Dellert, Great Barrington, 1 

 Committee. — W. W. Rice, Mrs. D wight Andrews. 



FBTJITS. 



FIRST DIVISION. 



Whole number of entries. 17. Fall Apples, 15 ; Best variety of all kinds of 

 Fruit, 2. 



Italy may boast of its oranges ; Spain of its. olives ; Belgium 

 of its prunes and France of its grapes ; but none of these favored 

 lands can present such a fruitage as welcomed your Committee on 

 Fall Apples at our late fair. Despite the failure in portions of our 

 county from local causes, a stranger from the old world might have 

 inferred from the display then and there, that all our trees 

 were fruit-bearers and that of a very choice description. Our peo- 

 ple have become so accustomed to these exhibits, that we suspect 

 they appreciate the blessing of such abundance as little as we do the 

 fresh air and pure water of our Berkshire hills. 



Although, according to Downing, our county is somewhat out- 

 side the real " Apple Belt " of our continent, it can show specimens 



