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size, handsome color, exceedingly fine grained and tender, with a 

 rich flavor and aroma, it is undoubtedly the finest dessert apple of 

 its season, and can be recommended with the utmost confidence to 

 all who desire such an apple. The moderate growth of the tree 

 adapts it to gardens of limited extent. At the annual exhibition 

 the show was very fine, and fully up to the average of past seasons. 

 The first prize for the best twenty varieties was taken by Asa 

 Clement, and for the best fifteen varieties the first prize was 

 awarded to Amos Bates. Some of the prizes for ten varieties were 

 not awarded, owing to some of the varieties being incorrectly 

 named. At the annual exhibition there were four collections of 

 twenty varieties, four of fifteen, four of ten, and four of five ; and 

 fifty-seven single dishes, offered for the ditferent prizes, making in 

 all two hundred and fifty-seven plates of apples. The prizes for 

 new varieties were not awarded, there being none shown. On 

 October 10th, the prize day for Autumn Apples, the show was 

 very fine, and the first prize was awarded to Asa Clement for the 

 best five varieties and for the best single dish (Gravenstein). 



October 20th, the Fruit Growers' Association and International 

 Show Society of Halifax, N; S., sent this society a large collec- 

 tion of apples for exhibition and comparison with ours of the same 

 varieties ; and also for names of many that were unknown. A 

 meeting of the Fruit Committee was called, several other persons 

 well acquainted with our ditferent varieties being also invited to- 

 examine this collection ; and after a thorough inspection and trial, 

 several varieties that were wrongly named were corrected ; but 

 there were many that were new to all present, and which, there- 

 fore, could not be named. The Society's Silver Medal was 

 awarded for this large and interesting collection. For a fuller 

 description and names of new varieties, reference is made to notes 

 of R. Manning, Editor. 



On the 7th of November, at the exhibition for Winter Apples, 

 Asa Clement took the first prize for the best ten varieties ; and 

 for the best single dish, the pi'ize was awarded to J. B. Moore, for 

 Hubbardston. Samuel N. Cox, of St. Joseph, Missouri, sent a 

 large collection of apples which made a A^ery fine show ; and to 

 him was awarded the Society's Silver Medal. For a full descrip- 

 tion, reference is made as above. 



Pears. — The crop of pears was not equal to last year's, but 

 about an average one for the past few years. Many of the pear 



