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Report on other Fruit. 



Committee. — Lewis A. Maynard, of Worcester, Chairman; J. 

 C. Stone, of Shrewsbury, J. F. Allen, Ansel Lakin, James II. Wall, 

 of Worcester. 



The high expectation of a fine and extensive exhibition of Peaches 

 and Plums, which the appearance of the orchards and gardens justi- 

 fied, a short time previous to the exhibition, almost entirely failed to 

 be realized, on account of the particularly unfavorable weather for 

 the properly ripening and preserving these fruits, for any considera- 

 ble length of time. In many cases, a few hours, only, swept off the 

 finest collections and specimens of these fruits, intended for the 

 exhibition. Hence, there were, comparatively, few of these fruits 

 in the exhibition, and especially so of the desirable varieties of the 

 Peach, excepting Crawford's Late. There were some plates with 

 good names, such as Coolidge's Favorite, Royal George, and George 

 IV, but the peaches were not the excellent varieties known among 

 horticulturists by these names. 



No attempt was made by the Committee to classify and correct 

 the names of the peaches. The varieties may almost be said to be 

 thousands, and the local names almost as numerous ; so that a clas- 

 sification and description of even a small collection, would be a 

 work of much time, and occupy too much, space in a brief report. 



The entries were as follows : 



PEACHES. 



E. M. Banning, Worcester. Early and Late Crawford, Yellow 

 Melocoton, Nameless. 



John Morey, Worcester. Late Crawford. 



J. D. Wheeler, Grafton. Red Cheek Melocoton. 



Lyman Prince, West Boylston. Late Crawford. 



D. S. Messinger, Worcester. Late Crawford, Queen Catharine, 

 Red Cheek Melocoton, Morse's White Rareripe, Clingstone, Seed- 

 ling, Jaques's Rareripe. 



John W. Capron, Uxbridge. Red Cheek Melocoton. 



Isaac Mills, Worcester. Late Crawford. 



