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16. FRUIT TREES. 



For the best nursery of fruit trees, not less than five hundred 

 in number, raised from the seed, and one or more years old from 

 the bud or graft, 



1st premium, - - - - ten dollars. 



2d premium, _ _ . _ eight dollars. 



3d premium, - Washington's Letters on Agriculture. 



For the best apple orchard, not less than seventy-five trees, 

 which shall have been planted or set out since the year 1845, 

 and shall be in the best thriving state in 1849, 



1st premium, _ _ - - ten dollars. 



2d premium, _ - - eight dollars. 



3d premium, . . - - four dollars. 



For the best engrafted or budded pear trees, not less than 

 twenty-five trees, set out since the year 1845, and in the best 

 thriving state in the autumn of 1849, 



1st premium, _ . - - ten dollars. 



2d premium, - - - five dollars. 



For the best peach orchard, not less than fifty trees, set out 

 since the year 1845, and which shall be in the best thriving 

 state in the autum of 1847, 



1st premium, - - . . ten dollars. 



2d premium, - > _ _ five dollars. 



17. CRANBERRIES. 



For the best experiment on the cultivation of the cranberry, 

 on not less than half an acre of land, the quantity, quality and 

 expense of culture being taken into consideration, to be paid in 



1847 and 1848, fifteen dollars. 



18. DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. 



For the best piece of carpeting, a yard wide, and not less than 



twenty yards to be exhibited, - - five dollars. 



For the second best do. - _ _ three dollars. 



For the best piece of stair carpeting, not less than twenty yards 



to be exhibited, _ _ - . three dollars. 



For the best straw or grass bonnet, - - five dollars. 



For the second best do. - - - three dollars. 



