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Exeter, N. H., and most of the editors of the agricultural 

 papers, and other gentlemen from abroad interested in 

 agricultural improvement. 



MosES Neavell, President. 



Ai.LEN W. Dodge, Secretary. 



FRUITS. 



T/ie Comrnittec on Fruits ivould respectfully Report 



That in the exhibition of to-day, we were reminded of 

 the great advance which has been made in this useful de- 

 partment, since the show in South Danvers in 1S35 or '36 

 where one of your Committee exhibited native pears from 

 Maine. This was about the commencement of a regular sys- 

 tematic arrangement of Fruits at our annual shows. The 

 Exhibition at this time, notwithstanding the rain of Tues- 

 day and the short crop of Apples in our County was much 

 better than we could have anticipated. Pears, Grapes, and 

 Peaches were as usual, good. As regards the last named 

 fruit it is remarkable that the crop of early Peaches exceed- 

 ed that of the A{)ple, a circumstance which will not proba- 

 bly occur again for years at least. There Avere 65 Entries 

 of Fruit from the following places, viz : Lawrence, 13 ; 

 Andover, 9; Haverhill, 9 ; Methuen, 14 ; Salem, 5 ; New- 

 buryport, 3; Newbury, 3; Wenham, 2 ; Groveland, George- 

 town, Beverly, Marblehead, Middleton, Topsfield, Boxford 

 and Amesbury one each. Charles F. Putnam, of Salem, 

 had 150 distinct varieties of Apples and Pears; Robert 

 Manning, 121 of Pears; Moses Pettengil, of Topsfield, 54 

 of Apples, Pears and Peaches; Ephraim Emerton, of Sa- 

 lem, 29 of Pears ; A. D. Rodgers, 25 of Grapes and Pears. 

 There were fine Black Hamburg and White Sweet Water 

 Grapes, open air culture, from S. H. Elliot, of Lawrence. 

 Of the native Grapes shown your Committee found none 



