1863.] REPORT ON APPLES. 63 



ANNUAL EXHIBITION, 1863. 



REPORT ON APPLES. 



J. M. Earle, Worcester, Chairman; S. P. Cham pney, Grafton ; Josiah 

 L. Woodward, Millbury ; Josiah G. Stone, Shrewsbury ; Sylvanus Sears, 

 Worcester. 



Apples. — For the largest and best collection, to Josiah L. Woodward, 



of Millbury, .' $10 00 



For the second best, to W. W. Keyes, of West Boylston, 8 00 



For the third best, to Sylvanus Sears, of Worcester, 6 00 



For the fourth best, to Samuel P. Champney, of Grafton,.., Harris on Insects. 

 For the best six varieties of not less than eight specimens each, to 



Stephen S. Foster, of Worcester, Harris on Insects. 



For the second best, to N. K. Merriam, of New England Village,... 3 00 



For the third best, to Samuel A. Knox, of Grafton, 2 00 



For the best eight Gravensteiu Apples, to C. L. Hartshorn, of Wor- 

 cester, 1 00 



For the best eight Porter Apples, to J. L. Day, of Worcester, 1 00 



For the best eight Hubbardston Nonsuch Apples, to William H. 



Heywood, of Worcester, 1 00 



For the best eight Baldwin Apples, to J. C. Ripley, of Worcester,... 1 00 

 For the best eight Autumn Sweet Apples, to William Fames, of 



Worcester, (variety : Quince), 1 00 



For the best eight Winter Sweet Apples, to 0. B. Hadwen, of Wor- 

 cester, (variety : Leicester,) 1 00 



For the best eight specimens of any other variety, to Jonathan Grout, 



of Worcester, (Roxbury Russet), 1 00 



For the second best, to Silas Clapp, of Worcester, (Ribstone Pippin), 1 00 

 For the third best, to Asa H. Allen, of Shrewsbury, (Early Wil- 

 liams), 1 00 



Gratuity to Loren Goes, of Worcester, for the "Somerset," 2 00 



[It is the misfortune. of the Society that the Chairman of the Committee on 

 Apples was prevented from completing a duty which he had partially discharged, 

 by recording the conclusions which now find their sole and unsatisfactory state- 

 ment in the abstract as above given. But the public service is somewhat ex- 

 exacting, and a Society which has benefitted so much, as has the Worcester 

 County Horticultural for a quarter of a century past, from the distinguished 

 devotion of John Milton Earle, should be slow to complain that his enforced 

 devotion to official duty had finally enured to his personal and pecuniary 

 advantage. E. W. L.] 



