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Italian Damask. Great bearer, very fine. 



Green Gage. The best of all Plums, not a good bearer. Aug. 



Imperial Gage. Large, yellow and good, greatest bearer of all. 



Orleans. Fine Purple Plum, great bearer. 



Washington. Very large and fine, but not a good bearer. 



Cherries. 



May duke. Dark red, when ripe, good bearer. June. 

 Black Tartarian. Very superior, but a tender tree. 

 Black Heart. Well known, and a great bearer. 

 White Bigarrean. Large and excellent, good bearer. 

 Davenport. Ripens with the Mayduke ; good. 

 Downer's Late. Fine and productive. July. 

 Etton. New fi-uit from England ; good bearer. 



On the subject of Floivers, the exhibition of which contribu- 

 ted much to the interest of the Show, a few words will express 

 all we feel required to say. It is not desirable that Flowers 

 should either be extensively cultivated by our farmers, or 

 entirely neglected. They constitute a beautiful part of the 

 Creator's works, and are capable of exerting a most benign 

 influence on the hearts and minds of men. They furnish food, 

 which the intellect feeds on and enjoys. Carefully nursed and 

 neatly arranged about a Farm-house they command the notice 

 and admiration of travellers or visitors to a greater degree than 

 far more costly architectural ornaments. Day unto day they 

 utter the praises of Him — 



Whose Sun exalts, 

 Whose breath perfumes them, and whose pencil paints, 



and proclaim the elevation of sentiment and the refinement of 

 the taste of their cultivators ; so intimately associated with 

 the love of truth and virtue is a taste for the beauties of nature, 

 that where the latter is discovered the former is believed to exist 

 also. Hence rose bushes, peonies or honeysuckles, lilac bushes, 

 a bed of pinks, daffodils, lillies, or dahlias tastefully grouped 



