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given to Samuel Hartwell for Bartletts. We had but very few new 

 varieties presented during the season. At the annual exhibition, 

 Marshall P. Wilder took the first prize for new pears, with the 

 following varieties : Mima Wilder, Eddie Wilder, Grace Wilder, 

 and Bertrand Guinoisseau, and thej^ were considered a very fine 

 collection. This exhibition was very fine, and we had about the 

 usual collections and varieties of former seasons, but nothing to 

 require any very particular description. The first prize was 

 awarded to A. Dickinson, for the following varieties : Bartlett, 

 Beurre d'Anjou, Beurre Superfin, Beurre Bosc, Beurre Clairgeau, 

 Beurre Hardy, Duchesse d'Angouleme, Belle Lucrative, Dana's 

 Hovey, Howell, Louise Bonne of Jersey, Marie Louise, Merriam, 

 Paradis d'Autorane, Seckel, Sheldon, Swan's Orange, Urbaniste, 

 St. Michel Archange, and Lawrence. There were man}' of the 

 same varieties among the other collections. The single dishes of 

 pears offered for prizes consisted of the following: Bartlett, 16; 

 Belle Lucrative, 9 ; Doyenne Boussock, 11 ; Sheldon, 8 ; Louise 

 Bonne of Jersey, 7; Beurre Diel, Winter Nelis, Lawrence and 

 Beurre Hardy, 6 each ; Beurre d'Anjou, Beurre Clairgeau, Seckel, 

 Doyenne du Comice, Beurre Superfin, Urbaniste, and Beurre Bosc, 

 five each ; Merriam and Swan's Orange, four each ; Howell, Paradis 

 d'Automne, and Marie Louise, three each ; Duchesse d'Angouleme ■ 

 and Dana's Hovey, two each ; Flemish Beauty, one. There were 

 eleven collections of five varieties, four often, four of fifteen, and 

 seven of twenty ; making in all, four hundred and twenty-five dishes 

 of pears offered for prizes, and one hundred as collections not for 

 premium ; and of apples, two hundred and fifty-seven dishes. 



Robert Manning placed upon our tables a dish containing two 

 dozen Orange pears from a tree belonging to Capt. Charles H. 

 Allen, of Salem. This tree is two hundred and thirty-five years 

 old ; the yield this year was three bushels, and last year eight and 

 a half bushels of sound fruit. 



On October 10th the exhibition of Autumn Pears and Apples 

 was very fine and much larger than in former seasons. The Ur- 

 baniste and Duchesse of T. M. Davis, and the Beurre Superfin of 

 R. W. Ames, which took the three prizes for single dishes, were 

 remarkably fine. On November 7th, the show of Winter Pears was 

 very good. The dishes most worthy of note were, first, a dish of 

 Beurre d'Anjou from J. H. Fenno ; second, one of Dana's Hovey 

 from A. S. M'Intosh ; third, one of Lawrence from Jesse Haley ; 



