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ten varieties are recommended b3^ you for profit? aud "why? 

 15. Give such other information as you think may be of in- 

 terest to others. 



The above fifteen questions were sent in such a form that 

 they could be readily answered on the same sheet. Had it 

 not been that the varieties exhibited were, in most cases (as 

 should always be in all), entered upon the Entry Book, it 

 would have been impossible to have ascertained, except from 

 each exhibitor afterwards. Ev^en if a few of the questions 

 had been answered hy all, it would have shown that each loas 

 loilUng to contribute even a little to the stock of general in- 

 formation, which our Society is organized to promote, and 

 which should be considered the duty of every Committee 

 to obtain, regarding the special object of which it is made 

 the judges, and report it. The mere looking at an object in 

 the pens of the Fair Gromids, or on the tables of the Hall, 

 is only a gratification to the eye ; to know how the objects 

 have reached such perfection as to gratify the eye, imparts 

 knowledge, that too of the very best kind, it being the prac- 

 tical experience of exhibitors from all parts of the county, 

 whose information of their manner of feeding, cultivating, or 

 making, to arrive at the result exhibited, is the most valu- 

 able, and most desired b}^ our Society, and which each ex- 

 hibitor should feel it a pleasure, as well as a duty, to impart 

 unsolicited, to be made use of by the Committee in their re- 

 port. The good points of such information, adopted by 

 others, will not injure him, its only result would be to raise 

 the standard of excellence. 



Some of the replies to the questions asked, are appended 

 as part of this report, and will be read with interest and in- 

 struction (especially that of Mr. John O'Brien, of Bradford), 

 for much valuable information can be derived from them. 



The almost unanimous reply as to Standard or Dwarf trees 

 for profit, is in favor of Standards, on account of their lar- 

 ger and thriftier growth, longer life, greater productiveness, 

 and requiring less care, being more hardy than the Dwarf. 



