50 



As a dessert fruit it is not excelled by any apple that I 

 have tasted in the last sixty years. 



The Lady's Sweet is an apple with size, shape, color and 

 bloom much like the Spy, though much smoother. Tree a 

 strong grower and an annual bearer. Downing rates it as 

 the best winter sweet apple yet known or cultivated in 

 this country. 



Keeps without shrivelling or losing its taste and flavor 

 till May. 



These apples are of superior quality either for home use 

 or market and are being much used by the young wide- 

 awake fruit growers of Essex County. We most earnestly 

 desire to see them added to the list of premium apples by 

 the Essex Agricultural Society. 



We wish to call the attention of all exhibitors to the ex- 

 ercise of more care in the selection of their specimens of 

 fruit. If they will consult the " Scale of points used for 

 judging fruits," they will observe that color and form 

 count fifteen points each, while quality, Freedom irom Im- 

 perfection and Uniformity/ in size count 20 points each and 

 Size only 10. One bruised or wormy apple takes twenty 

 points off ; one or two extra large apples with the remain- 

 der of average size loses you twenty points, while unifor- 

 mity in size counts you twenty points. 



Remember that the careful judge is going to examine all 

 sides and handle freely, looking closely for imperfections. 

 We must prune, fertilize, cultivate, spray and thin to get 

 the best results. 



J. W. GoODELL, Chairman. 



PEACHES, GRAPES AND ASSORTED FRUITS. 



$2.00. First premium, to Edwin P. Noyes, Newbury, for 

 Yellow Flesh peach. 



