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FOREST TREES. 



1. For plantation of either of the following species of 

 forest trees, viz. : — White Oak, Yellow Oak, Locust, Birch, 

 White Ash, Maple, Walnut, or White Pine, not less than 

 three years old, and not less than 1000 trees, premium, $20 



2. For plantation of not less than 600 trees, premium, $10 



3. For ornamental trees, ten or more set on any street, road 

 or farm, and oared for five years, premium, $10 



CRANBERRIES. 



For best conducted experiment in the cultivation of the 

 Cranberry, at least two summers, on not less than twenty rods 

 of land, with written statement of the quantity and quality 

 of land, expense of planting, weeding and culture, and amount 

 of crops produced. Premium to be paid in 1889 or 1890, $15 



For best experiment do., on not less than ten rods of land, 

 premium, $10 



For best do., on not less than five rods of land, premium, $5 



STRAWBERRIES AND OTHER SMALL FRUITS. 



For best crop of Strawberries, on not less than twenty rods 

 of land, expense of planting, culture, crop, etc., stated in 

 writing, premium, $10 



For best crop Currants. Raspberries and Blackberries, with 

 statement as above, premiums, each, $10 



NEW WINTER APPLES. 



For a new variety of Winter Apple, originated in this 

 County, equal or superior to the Baldwin, premium. $100 



For a new variety of like character originating elsewhere, 

 provided it has been cultivated in the County sufficiently to 

 urove it equal or superior to the Baldwin for general purposes, 

 premium, $20 



For a successful experiment in destroying the codling moth 



and other worms destructive to the apple, premium, $25 



Note. — Persons who, Jap. 1, 1889, consider themselves competitors will 

 send Post Office address to Secretary, and others in the Comity wishing to 

 compete for ahove must notify Secretary, and furnish a full statement of 

 their'apple, and also scions when called for under his directions, to be 

 tested by the Society . 



SEEDLING POTATOES AND EXPERIMENTS. 



For best Seedling Potato, originating in Essex County, to 

 equal in yield, earliness and quality, the Early Rose, and to 

 surpass it in one or more of these particulars, premium paid 

 after three years' trial, $25 



In testing the value of a Seedling Potato, the committee 

 are instructed to take the sworn testimony of the cultivator 

 with regard to the yield, after having inspected the crop. 



