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The undersigned, a Committee appointed by the Executive Committee pf the 

 Housatonic agricultural society, to award the munificent sum of two hundred 

 dollars so generously placed at the disposal of said committee, in su?ns and on 

 conditions expressed in a circular herewith annexed, for the encouragement 

 of planting Shade and Ornamental Trees in the town of Great Barrington and 

 its immediate vicinity, adopt the statements and conditions of said circular as 

 their own, and make the following report. There were but two competitors 

 for the prize of one hundred dollars, the highest sum named for seventy-five 

 trees, of varieties named in said circular, preference being given to them in the 

 order in which they are named. The committee proceeded on the 15th day 

 of September, 1875, to examine all the trees set according to the terms set 

 forth in said circular, about one half of which were set in fall of 1874 and 

 half in the spring of 1875, and most of them were in good condition, and a 

 suitable number were set by each competitor, and were found in growing con- 

 dition. We found of maple, 100; elm, 22; white ash, 27; walnut, 2; orna- 

 mental, 7 ; — 158 in all. We award as follows : 



For 75 Trees set in fall of 1874 and spring of 1875, Frederick Abbey, Great 



Barrington, $100 00 



The committee examined trees set by Isaac Rice, unfortunately not comply- 

 ing with the conditions set forth in said circular, being set but 30 feet apart, 

 a class of trees for symmetry it would be difficult to excel. Your committee 

 regret a necessity which compels them to withhold from him a premium which, 

 but for the non-compliance of distance set forth in said circular would have 

 been richly deserved. 



Should the donor continue the balance of the fund placed in the hands of 

 the committee in 1875 for further competion, (to which his generous heart 

 needs no prompting,) others may be induced to follow an example so 

 worthily set. 



D. B. Fenn, ) 



Orren Curtiss, v Committee. 



J. A. Kline, ) 



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