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son, expect a satisfactory exhibition of this fruit. Even the 

 Concords were not up to the standard of that variety. The 

 Committee regret that they were unable to award the pre- 

 mium for the best collection, only one lot containing the 

 requisite number of varieties having been presented, and this 

 not coming up in other points to the requirements of the 

 ofler. The Committee, however, think the exhibitor of this 

 collection entitled to great credit for the pains taken to dis- 

 play it, and as they believe much instruction may be derived 

 from such a collection, they have given it the largest gratuity 

 awarded, and as they deem it desirable to add to the number 

 of early varieties, adapted to this latitude, they would es- 

 pecially mention one variety, the Warden, of which good 

 specimens were contained in this collection, as early, and as 

 giving promise of value in other respects. Another variety 

 of similar promise (though not exhibited on this occasion) 

 is the Moore's Early, which the Committee recommend for 

 trial. 



Your Committee would take the liberty to remind exhibit- 

 ors of the importance of showing the exact number of speci-' 

 mens — no more and no less — mentioned in the offer of the 

 premium. If, for instance, a dish of grapes entered for pre- 

 mium contains more than four bunches, the comparison is 

 made only Avith the best four, and all others are simply in. the 

 way of the Committee. But it should be understood that 

 this remark applies only to fruits offered for premium, and 

 that a dish presented for exhibition only may contain as many 

 specimens as the exhibitor may choose. 



Three baskets of assorted fruit were presented, containing 

 a variety of handsome specimens and well arranged. All 

 were so good that the Committee had much difficulty in de- 

 ciding between them. If they may be allowed a word of 

 criticism, they would say that, in their judgment, the colored 

 and scalloped paper placed around one of them was hardly in 

 better taste than the "bouquet papers" with which bouquets 



