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PEARS. 



Your Committee on Pears have attended to their duty as 

 well as they could inider the present system of showing fruit, 

 and would make the following report : — 



There were 83 exhibitors, from 17 towns and cities, show- 

 ing 420 plates. The award of premiums is as follows : — 



T. K. Bartlett, Newburyport, Bartlett ; E. Bradstreet, Sa- 

 lem, Belle Lucrative ; George Pettengill, Salem, Beurre Bosc ; 

 Peter Wait, Danvers, Beurre Clairgeau ; George Pettengill, 

 Salem, Beurre d' Anjou ; A. J. Hubbard, Peabody, Beurre 

 Supertin ; Henry V. Buxton, Peabody, Buffum ; Peter 

 Wait, Danvers, Clapp's Favorite ; John S, Ives, Salem, 

 Duchess d' Augouleme ; John V. Stevens, Peabody, Dana's 

 Hove}^ ; A. J. Hubbard, Peabody, Doyenne Boussock ; Wm. 

 Huff, Newburyport, Maria Louise ; T. C. Thurlow, West 

 Newbury, Ho wells ; Benj. P. Ware, Marblehead, Lawrence ; 

 John V. Stevens, Peabody, Louise Bonne cle Jersey ; Peter 

 Tracy, Salem, Seckel ; George Pettengill, Salem, Sheldon; 

 J. Henry Hill, Amesbury, Urbaniste ; George Pettengill, Sa- 

 lem, Vicar of Winkfield ; Wm. Huft*, Newburyport, Winter 

 Nelis ; B. P. Ware, Marblehead, St. Michael Archange ; Wm. 

 Hull', Newburyport, Golden Beurre Bilboa ; G. W. Taylor, 

 Peabody, McLaughlin ; E. Bradstreet, Danvers, Onondaga ; 

 Peter Waite, Danvers, Paradise d' Autumn — each first pre- 

 mium. « 



For the best collection of other varieties, J. Henry Hill, 

 Amesbury, Glout Morceau ; .W. H. Huse, Newburyport, 

 Kirtland ; J. Henry Hill, Amesbury, Andrews — $1.50 each. 



For the best collection of twenty varieties, J. Henry Hill, 

 Amesbury. 



For the best collection of fifteen varieties, Wm. H. Huse, 

 Newburyport. 



For the best collection of ten varieties, A. J. Hubbard, 

 Peabodv. 



