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A very interesting feature under this work was an exhibit 

 of apples at the offices of the Board, the third week in No- 

 vember. No cash prizes were offered, but first and second 

 prize ribbons for the best three specimens of the following 

 varieties : Baldwin, Gravenstein, Hubbardston, Mcintosh Red, 

 Northern Spy, Rhode Island Greening, Roxbury Russet, 

 Wealthy, King of Tompkins County, Sutton, Tolman Sweet, 

 Yellow Bellflower, Red Canada, Westfield and Winter 

 Banana. Ribbons were awarded as follows : Baldwin, — first, 

 to II. M. Longley of Shirley ; second, to B. L. Call of Colrain ; 

 honorable mention, to L. A. & C. J. Lahm of Carlisle. Rox- 

 bury Russet, — first, to Edw. A. Lunt of Newbury ; second, 

 to L. H. Bailey of West Newbury. Northern Spy, — first, to 

 W. H. Campbell of Wayland ; second, to L. A. & C. J. Lahm 

 of Carlisle. Hubbardston, — first, to F. A. Russell of 

 Methuen ; second, to C. A. Campbell of Ipswich. King, — 

 first, to Boston Consumptives Hospital; second, to C. A. 

 Campbell of Ipswich. Rhode Island Greening, — first, to 

 Samuel Leeds of Woburn. Sutton Beauty, — first, to Ed- 

 ward Farrar of Lincoln. Mcintosh Red, — first, to Edward 

 Farrar of Lincoln. Stark, — first, to F. A. Russell of 

 Methuen. Palmer Greening, — first, to H. M. Longley 

 of Shirley. Winter Banana, ■ — - first to E. D. Robinson of 

 Vineyard Haven. Wagner, — first, to E. D. Robinson of 

 Vineyard Haven. Yellow Bellflower, — first, to Boston Con- 

 sumptives Hospital. Schiawassa Beauty, — second, to Bos- 

 ton Consumptives Hospital. Blue Pearmain, • — • second, to 

 Wm. N. Davis of Hudson. 



The exhibit attracted a great deal of attention, and the 

 office was thronged with visitors during the four days that the 

 apples were on exhibition, upwards of 1,000 persons, by con- 

 servative estimate, visiting the exhibition. The high quality 

 of the fruit shown did much to convince the visitors, who were 

 mainly residents of Boston and from the consuming class, that 

 our home-grown fruit is the equal in appearance of any 

 gTOAvn in the west, and all admit its superior quality. This 

 exhibition is a feature which should be repeated every year 

 in which there is not a fruit show of greater magnitude in 

 Boston. 



