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PanTers, Twenty Ounce Pippin ; Frank Goodson, North An- 

 dover, Gravenstein ; M. S. Jenkins, North Andover, R. Rus- 

 set; Z. C. Wardwell, Groveland, Crab; Horace Ware, Mar- 

 blehead, Baldwin ; Geo. W. Chadwick, Boxford, R. Russet ; 

 George A. Rea, North Andover, Fall Harvey ; John Barr}^, 

 Andover, Porter ; Morris Murphy, North Andover, Graven- 

 stein. 



G. W. Gage, For the Committee. 



PEACHES, GRAPES AND ASSORTED FRUITS. 



The Committee on the above named articles respectfully 

 report that they were much disappointed in the exhibition of 

 peaches, the specimens presented being inferior to what 

 might have been expected in a season more favorable than 

 most years to this fruit. No specimens of any white fleshed 

 peach, or of any Essex County Seedling, were shown, which 

 the Committee thought worthy of the premium. The latter 

 failure they particularly regret, as they deem the production 

 of new varieties of this fruit, of superior quality, and hardy 

 and healthy in the tree, a most desirable object Even if 

 such varieties are not sufiiciently distinct to be worthy of 

 propagation, the growers will be fully rewarded by the pos- 

 session of trees which will probably produce more abundant- 

 ly and give more satisfaction than grafted trees. But great 

 care should be taken to plant seed only from trees showing 

 no sign of disease. A large proportion of the peaches which 

 have come under the eye of the writer the present season, 

 have, in their premature ripening, pimply and spotted sur- 

 face, and stained flesh, shown marks of the yellows — a fatal 

 disease. We repeat, therefore, that the utmost care should 

 be taken to propagate, whether by seeds or buds, only from 

 perfectly healthy trees. 



The season has not been favorable for grapes, and here at 

 the northern limit of grape culture, we cannot in such a sea- 



