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American Congress of Fruit-growers. Their 

 three grades of quality and the types or pat- 

 terns of each, may be conveniently exhibited 

 in the following little 



TABLE OF QUALITY. 



Many fruits are so much affected by the 

 season, cultivation, soil, health of the tree, 

 &c. &c. that they, in some years, seem to 

 belong with the good, and in other years, 

 with the very good, or even the best. Thus 

 of many it is difficult to decide, whether 

 some should be generally classed as good or 

 very good, and whether others generally be- 

 long with the very good or the best class. 



A very explicit notion of quality, therefore, 

 must not be expected from the following tables 

 of fruits. We intend to give a general idea 

 only of this characteristic, and the same also 

 of the size, and, in a less degree, of all other 

 properties and characteristics of fruits. Per- 



