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the trustees, those to wliom premiums were awarded for collections, 

 were excluded from the competition for collections of any smaller 

 number of varieties. It is proper, also, to say, that the Committee 

 in awarding premiums, excluded their own fruit from the competi- 

 tion. 



Eight hundred and twenty-six plates of pears were exhibited by 

 eighty-one different contributors, viz. : 



Elijah Stowe, Worcester. Seckel. 



Charles White, Worcester. Fourteen varieties — Louise Bonne 

 de Jersey, Seckel, Henry IV, Napoleon, good, Vicar of Winkfield, 

 very good, Beurre Diel, Easter Beurre, and seven unnamed. 



Mrs. Amos Brown, Worcester. Flemish Beauty. 



Joseph Lovell, Worcester. Beurre Diel. 



Henry R. Phelps, Worcester. Louise Bonne de Jersey, very 

 handsome, Beurre Oris d'Hiver Nouveau. 



Ansel Lakin, Worcester. Seckel, Glout Morceau, Vicar of Wink- 

 field, one Beurre Diel weighing eighteen and one-fouith ounces. 



Henry Howe, Shrewsbury. One nameless variety. 



Dr. O. H. Blood, Worcester. Fondante d'Automne, good. 



Albert Brown, Worcester. Seckel, Duchess d'Angouleme. 



Charles Whittemore, Worcester, Swan's Orange, Napoleon. 



E. W. Lincoln, Worcester. Beurre Bosc. 



S. P. Champney, Worcester. Duchess d'Angouleme, good, Ur- 

 baniste, good, Louise Bonne de Jersey, Bartlett, Seckel. 



C. M. Gould, Worcester.. Napoleon. 



Emory Bannister, Worcester. Seven varieties — Duchess d'An- 

 gouleme, good, Bartlett, St. Michael, Beurre Diel, Passe Colmar, 

 Louise Bonne de Jersey, Josephine. 



Thomas Kinnicutt, Worcester. Beurre Diel, St. Michael, Flemish 

 Beauty, Louise Bonne de Jersey. 



Enos Dorr, Worcester. Capsheaf. 



Rev. A Hill, Worcester. Beurre Bosc, Winter Nelis, Stevens's 

 Genesee, good, Belle Lucrative, and one nameless. 



Edward Earle, Worcester. Twelve varieties — Dix, Passe Colmar, 

 and ten other varieties, — see list of premiums. 



O. B. Hadwin, Worcester. Beurie Diel, Marie Louise, Louise 

 Bonne de Jersey, Paradise d'Automne, Napoleon, and three unnamed. 



Pitt Holmes, Worcester. Buffum, Urbanistc, Passe Colmar, and 

 one nameless. 



