!2 TRANSACTIONS. &c. 



AThat they observed at this exhibition, the Committee were coniiiineti 

 in an opinion previously entertained, that there are, growing obscure- 

 ly in this county, several apples deserving to be more extensively 

 known. Among such, might be classed the Forbush Apple, the Sut- 

 ton Beauty, and the Harvey, both cultivated by Mr. Joel Knapp, of 

 Sutton, Hunt's Russet, Capron's Pleasant, and probably others. 



With a single exception, noiiced below, the largest number of va- 

 rieties, exhibited by any one individual, was from Samnel H. Colton, 

 of the Worcester Nursery, whose collection comprised forty-four 

 varieties. Mr. Job C. Stone, nurseryman, from Shrewsbury, exhib- 

 ited a splendid collection of forty varieties. T. VJ . Ward, also from 

 Shrewsbury, had thirty-three or four varieties ; Geo. A. Chamberlini 

 of Worcester, thii ty -three ; Silas Allen, of Shrewsbury, twenty- 

 eight ; Joel Knapp, of Sutton, twenty-three, &c. &lc. 



Very fine collections were shown also by Stephen Salisbury, the 

 President of the Society, by Wm. S. Lincoln, the efficient Secretary 

 of the Agricultural Society, by J. H. Allen, of Grafton, E. Batchel- 

 ler, of Sutton, S. Sears, of Worcester, and several other gentlemen. 



A collection of single specimens of over ninety varieties of apples, 

 was entered by Bond Sl Damon, of North Brookfield, nurserymen. 

 It is proper, however, to inform the public that these gentlemen did 

 not claim to have raised any considerable portion of this fruit ; al- 

 though, in the hurried doings of the day, this important fact was not 

 entered either upon the Society's Book of Entries or ujion the labels 

 attached to the specimens themselves. 



This circumstance prevented the Committee from noticing this 

 collection as they otherwise would have done, for it has long been 

 — by implication, at least — a standing rule of the Society, that fruits 

 not grown by the exhibitor should be carefully designated as such ; 

 and it will be obvious that a strict observance of this important rule 

 is essential to the respectability of the Association. We, of course, 

 will not allow ourselves for a moment to believe that any member of 

 the Society, whether a nurseryman or not, would intentionally prac- 

 tice this sort of deception, and being fully satisfied that not the 

 slightest censure attaches to Messrs. Bond and Damon, for their con- 

 duct in this matter, we would respectfully tender to them the Socie- 

 ty's thanks for their splendid display of so large a variety of Apples. 



It was gratifying to notice a great improvement in the naming of 

 fruits, the contributor?, this year, except in two or thiree instances, 



