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part of the state; grapes in the eastern part; and pears in the 

 immediate vicinity of Boston; indeed, ahiiost in Boston for the 

 Roxbury, Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain districts may be said to 

 carry off the greater number of our prizes for pears. 



These latter named fruits were very abundant tlois season and 

 we had some fine specimens on exhibition. Among these were a 

 collection of over twenty varieties shown by E. B. Wilder; Bosc, 

 Dana's Hovey, and Seckel by W. G. Kendall; Anjou, Sheldon, 

 Lawrence, and Sieulle by F. W. Dahl; Duchess, Sheldon, and 

 Marie Louise by E. Torrey. W. G. Kendall showed a few speci- 

 mens of the Worden-Seckel pear which should be more \\idely 

 grown as a garden pear; its beauty, flavor, and productiveness are 

 unsurpassed. 



The grape while not extensively cultivated for the market in this 

 section is nevertheless a very popular garden fruit, and the exhibit 

 this year proved that we can grow very fine specimens right here in 

 INIassachusetts. Among the most interesting exhibits was one by 

 J. S. Chase consisting of fourteen varieties as follows: Brighton, 

 Herbert, ^^ilder, Esther, ]\IcPike, Nector, lona, Rogers No. 30, 

 Delaware, Vergennes, Centennial, Ulster Prolific, Pocklington, 

 and Prentiss. jNIr. Chase also showed some very fine seedling 

 grapes. Numbers 8, 20, 19, and 22. 



Number 8 is the most promising of the lot and is to be recom- 

 mended chiefly for its delicious lemon flavor. The grape is white, 

 medium size, thin sldn, and the pulp melting and juicy. The 

 bunches exhibited were not very good shape. 



Number 20 is an early grape, dark blue, fair quality, and bunch 

 and berry of good size. 



Number 22 is red in color, berry large, bunch medium, some- 

 what like Salem, good flavor, skin thick, and pulp melting. 



Number 19, black in color, bunch small, berry large, good ciuality, 

 is rather a promising variety. 



Edward Farrar exliibited some very fine Pocklington, Niagara, 

 and Worden grapes; W. G. Kendall, fine Isabella, Salem, and 

 Delaware; and C. F. Hayward, fine Concord and Niagara. 



One very interesting exhibit was from Solomon Ryder of Truro, 

 Massachusetts. This contained many seedling apples and peaches, 

 and a few pears from a tree supposed to have been planted by the 



