JREPORTS 



EEPORT ON APPLES. 



AYiLLiAM T. Hakloav, Chairman; James F. Allen; Samuel H. 

 CoLTON: Stkphex S. Foster; Samuel A. Knox; J. K. L. Pickford, 

 of Worcester; Cyrts White, of Millhury; and Isaac B. Hartwell, 

 of Oxford. 



Tlie Committee on Apples sulnnit the followini^ report : 



The whole number of competitors for the iiremiums offered b}' the 

 society for apples was sixty-four. The whole nunilKn- of articles entered 

 to compete for these premiums was 1201. "Whether considered as a 

 whole, or with reference to individual entries, it was a splendid collection 

 of fruit. Finding little to criticise in our de])artment as regards matters 

 of substance, we are the 'more free to find fault with a few matters of 

 form. 



In a few instances the names of varieties did not accompany the plates 

 on which they were exhibited, and in a few others the names were in- 

 correctly given. 



In most of the larger collections we noticed varieties tliat, although the 

 specimens exhibited appeared well enough to the superficial eye, are 

 notoriously unworthy of culture or encouragement. Who would think of 

 exhibiting such varieties as the Gilly-flower for instance, or the Ham- 

 burg, so-called, excejit as counters to swell a number : 



Probably it would be a sufficient remedy against offering fruit for 

 ])remiuni without giving the name, or under a false na)ne, to exclude the 

 same from competition, and as a check upon including unworthy varieties 

 for the purpose of exhibiting a nominal su])eriority, hniitation in respect 

 to the maximum number of entries for premiums offered for best col- 

 lections would doubtless be effectual. 



