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of Plants and Flowers was larger than was anticipated, and the 

 room appropriated too small. Although the platform seemed to 

 be the better place for the music, it would probably be better to 

 use that for Plants and Flowers, and if more room was needed, 

 use a part of the centre table on the lower floor. 



The failure of the Apple crop for the year caused the exhibit 

 of apples to be much smaller than usual. A better show was 

 made of Pears and many fine specimens exhibited. In Grapes 

 also, quite a good number of plates of excellent specimens were 

 on exhibition. As a whole, the show of fruit was not up to the 

 standard of former years. 



In the Bread, Butter and Canned Fruit department a good 

 variety of Canned Fruit was shown, but the number of compe- 

 titors in Bread making was quite limited. A few packages of 

 fine quality of Butter were shown, but the making of butter by 

 the farmers of Essex County is greatly reduced from the quan- 

 tity made a few years since. 



The show of vegetables was made in tents at the rear of the 

 hall. These were well filled and an excellent display of all the 

 varieties was made. The larger portion were collections made 

 by two or three contributors of one or more specimens each. 

 There were 300 entries made by 74 contributors. 



The number of entries in the hall were as follows : — 



number of contributors 252 



" " " 132 



" " " 62 



" " « 100 



a u u 35 



tc (< a n 



28 

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