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111 the Hall, tlie show of Fruit was of unusual excellence. 

 President Wilder exhibited more than one hundred varieties of 

 pears, which were not entered for premium, and fine displays of 

 the same fruit were made by Walker & Co., Roxbury, F. & L. 

 Clapp, Dorchester, A. D. Weld, West Roxbury, C. F. Curtis 

 and George S. Curtis, Jamaica Plain, Ariel Low and Samuel 

 Mackintosh, Roxbury, and others. The leading contributors of 

 apples were F. & L. Clapp, Dorchester, A. D. Weld and George 

 H. Richards, West Roxbury, A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, S. 

 E. Morse, South Dedham, Henry Goulding, Dover, C. & C. 

 Mcintosh, Needham, and others. Good displays of grapes were 

 made by Judge Reed, J. W. Clark, Eliphalet Stone, A. B. 

 White, Dedham, and others. 



The Floral display was- very fine, beautiful contributions to 

 that department having been made by Mrs. S. M. Stuart, Hyde 

 Park, George Craft, Brookline, Edward S. Rand, Jr., Dedham, 

 Mrs. George Vose, Milton, and others. 



The display of useful and ornamental articles at the ladies' 

 table, though not as large as on some previous years, was cred- 

 itable to the several contributors. The attractions of this de- 

 partment were greatly increased by the beautiful paintings of 

 Mrs. S. M. Stuart of Hyde Park, and by a collection of the 

 beautiful Chromo Lithographs of Mr. Prang, which were much 

 admired. 



Of Vegetables, the leading contributors were C. G. Upham 

 and C. & C. Mcintosh, Needham, Francis W. Draper, West 

 Dedham, John Sias, Milton, A. F. Stevens, Wellesley, and 

 others. 



The display of Agricultural Implements was large, Parker, 

 Gannett & Osgood, of Boston, making a very fine show of their 

 extensive stock, and contributions were also made by the Ames 

 Plow Company, Boston ; fine specimens of carriage work were 

 presented by George A. Flagg and S. E. Morse, Dedham. 



Among other manufactured articles contributed to the Exhi- 

 bition, the famous Peerless Cooking Stove of Pratt & Went- 

 worth, Roxbury, was the most prominent. This splendid speci- 

 men of American manufacture took the first grand prize at the 

 late World's Fair, and wherever it has been exhibited it has 

 borne off the palm from all otlier competitors. The Wheeler 

 & Wilson, and Willcox & Gibbs Sewing Machines, both in 



