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PEACHES, GEAPES, AND ASSORTED FRUIT. 



The Committee have awarded the following premiums and 

 gratuities, viz. : — 



Peaches — For the best nine specimens of Freestone White 

 Flesh, $2, to Caleb Saunders, of Lawrence ; for the best do. 

 Yellow Flesh, $2, to E. F. Webster, of Haverhill; best do. 

 Essex County Seedling, $2, to A. V. Bugbee, Lawrence. A 

 gratuity of $1 to J. H. Eaton, Lawrence, for Orchard House 

 Peaches ; 50 cents each, for single plates, to Joseph Moore of 

 Peabody, Solomon Fuller of Danvers, and Norman S. Cole 

 of West Boxford. 



Grapes — For the best four bunches of Concord, Rogers' 

 No. 3 or Massasoit, and Rogers' No. 39, $3 for each variety, 

 to George W. Gage of Methuen ; for the best four bunches 

 of lona, Creveling, Rogers' No. 4 or Wilder, No. 19 or Mer- 

 rimac. No. 22 or Salem, $3 for each, to E. P. Richardson, of 

 Lawrence ; for the best Hartford Prolific, $3, to B. Goodwin, 

 of Haverhill ; for the best Isabella and Rogers' No. 15 or 

 Agawam, $3 each, to D. H. Stickney, of Groveland ; for the 

 best Delaware, $3, to James Lowrie, of Danvers ; for the 

 best Clinton, $3, to L. K. Pemberton, Groveland; for the 

 best Allen's Hybrid, $3, to Baldwin Coolidge, of Lawrence; 

 for the best Diana, $3, to John O'Brien, Bradford ; for the 

 best collection of ten varieties of Native Grapes, $7, to Geo. 

 W. Gage, of Methuen. 



Your Committee would also award a premium of $1.50 to 

 each of the following persons : E. P. Richardson, Lawrence, 

 for Worden ; George W. Gage, Methuen, for Cottage ; D. 

 H. Stickney, Groveland, for " Stickney's Seedling;" George 

 W. Ladd, Bradford, "Ladd's Seedling." 



This last so nearlv resembles the Delaware that the Com- 

 mittee were in doubt — a majority thinking it might be the 

 Delaware not fully ripe ; but later information, and an exam- 

 ination of the vine by one of the Committee, has led us to 

 place it on the list of "other worthy varieties." 



