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10. Vicar of Winktield ; great productiveness, ripens when 

 others are nearly gone, finds a ready sale at good prices ; 

 ripens December to March. 11. Rostiezer. 12. Belle Lu- 

 crative. 13. Onondaga. 14. Clapp's Favorite. 15. Win- 

 ter Nelis. 16. Howell. 17. Urbaniste. 18. Buffum. 19. 

 Beurre GifFard. 20. Marie Louise. 21. Paradise d'Au- 

 tomne. 22. Glout Morceau. 23. Dearborn's Seedling. 24. 

 Bloodgood. 25. Kingsessing. 26. Tyson. 



Your Committee, like others, labored under the disadvan- 

 tage of scattered fruit on the tables in the Exhibition Hall, 

 while some of the fruit tables Avere intersected with manu- 

 factured goods, making it laborious, difficult and unsatisfac- 

 tory for the Committees. The fruit was, however, better 

 arranged than at most, if not all, of the previous exhibitions. 

 The manner of quickly increasing the table space, when nec- 

 essary, with a wide board upon supports, put on so readily 

 (after the table was filled with fruit) in a way that did not 

 interfere with showing the fi-uit Under it, we considered a 

 commendable expedient, worthy of notice and recommenda- 

 tion. The plates of pears being scattered among other 

 classes of fruit, or with other varieties of the same class, and 

 where varieties were together, the removal of plates back to 

 the collections from whence taken, to enable the Committee 

 to judge the collections, consumed so much time that some 

 of the Committee were obliged to leave before completiou ; 

 those that were left received the valuable assistance of Hon. 

 J. J. H. Gregory and Aaron Low, Esq., for which the Com- 

 mittee here express their indebtedness. 



The delay and labor of fruit committees, at all the So- 

 ciety's exhibitions, caused your Pear Committee to give the 

 subject careful consideratiou, and they concluded that the 

 Society was to blame more than Hall Superintendent, Ex- 

 hibitors, or any Committee connected with the fruit exhibit, 

 from the fact that the Society had n»t any special rules gov- 

 erning such exhibit, except the matter of entry and certify- 



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