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7. Among the vegetables placed on exhibit by the de- 

 partment were very attractive groups of Giant Pascal celery, 

 White Egg turnip and Brunswick cabbage. 



B. Horticultural Department. 



1. This department made a very excellent and attractive 

 display of thirty-eight varieties of apples. They were placed 

 five in a plate, upon a table running lengthwise of the hall. 

 Those varieties were : Jacob's Sweet, Mother, Swaar, Beauty 

 of Kent, Leicester Sweet, Hubbardston Nonesuch, Porter, 

 Haas, Carlough, General Lyon, Fall Pippin, Westfield 

 Seek-No-Further, Palmer Greening, Lord's Apple, Wagener, 

 Hurlbut, Baldwin, Indian Scion, Tolman Sweet, Gano, 

 Winesap, Lady Apple, Pound Sweet, Ben Davis, King of 

 Tomkins Count}*, Roxbury Russet, Sutton Beauty, Arab- 

 skoe, Brilliant, Scarlet Cranberry, Shiawassee Beauty, 

 Lady Sweet, Walbridge, Gilliflower, Rhode Island Green- 

 ing, Pewaukee, Fanny and Danvers Sweet. 



2. The four varieties of grapes shown were : Herbert 

 (Rogers No. 44), Iona, Oneida and Wilder (Rogers No. 4). 



3. Quite a large display of nursery stock was made, 

 mounted on frames, enabling one to see at a glance the ob- 

 jects to be illustrated. In the case of the cherry, plum, 

 apple and peach, the various stages, from the stock to the 

 tree ready to set out, were strikingly shown. 



In case of the peach, the following stages were illus- 

 trated : (1) seed as planted about May 10 ; (2) shoot budded 

 in September of same year; (3) stock with live bud; (4) 

 stock cut oft* just above live bud, allowing only the latter to 

 grow; (5) one-year-old tree ; (6) various methods of prun- 

 ing the peach tree. 



The apple was illustrated in much the same way, showing 

 stock with live bud, the one, two and three year old tree, 

 and a two-year-old tree, one year transplanted. Following 

 the apple was the cherry, showing the live buds in both the 

 Mazzard and Mahalcb stock, one and two years old, as well 

 as the two-year-old stock, one year transplanted. The plum 

 closed the series, with live buds, in both the Mariana and 

 Myriobolan stocks, one and two year old trees, as well as a 

 two-year-old tree, one year transplated. Currant and grape 



