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Augur & Sous have this year entered their Seedliug Strawberry, 

 Jewell, for the Prospective Prize for that fruit. 



Of the $1,500 appropriated for prizes and gratuities for fruits, 

 the Committee have awarded $1,225, leaving a balance of $275. 

 A considerable portion of this balance represents prizes offered 

 for peaches, but not awarded, owing to the failure of the crop, 

 and the consequent absence of competition. 



The increased appropriation for next year has enabled the Com- 

 mittee to offer new prizes ; and also to add materially to the old 

 ones, especially for those fruits in which there is the strongest 

 competition ; and they feel confident that these measures will 

 result in an accession of new exhibitors, and in more assiduous 

 efforts on the part of our habitual contributors, thus making our 

 exhibitions what they should be, — sources of continually increas- 

 ing interest and instruction. 



E. W. Wood, \ 



Benj. G. Smith, J 



Jacob W. Manning, ( Committee 



C. F. Curtis, [ on Fruits. 



O. B. Had WEN, \ 



Warren Fenno, / 



