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Snow—Q exhibits. All fii-st class 

 sam]iles and well ji;d.2;ed. 



Baldwin — 6 exhibits. All good 

 samples but the one getting second 

 prize, which was not Baldwin. 



St. Lawrence — 3 exhibits. All veiy 

 good. Tlie tirst prize lot was unusually 

 large. 



Ani/ Other Varuty—Vl exhibits, 

 comprising some eight or nine varieties. 

 All good samples. 



Variety of Fall Apples— TPivst prize 

 awarded to an exhibit having ten vari- 

 ties. This prize was well earned, as 

 they were all excellent specimens, and 

 the different varieties in every case 

 correctly named. 



Variety of Winter Apples — First 

 prize to a lot of 18 varieties, all good 

 specimens, but none named ; second 

 prize, to lot having ID varieties, all 

 named, but several of them incorrectly: 

 notably the varieties named Lady Ap- 

 ple and Rox. Russet. 



PEAKS. 



The exhibit of peai-s was poor. There 

 were a few fair specimens, but most of 

 them were inferior. The tirst prize for 

 Early Pears had been very justly 

 awarded to a plate of magnificently 

 grown Souvenir du Congress. 



GRAPES. 



The show of gra])es was the poorest I 

 have seen at any Fair for some years. 

 There were but two exhibits, and the 

 first prize lot consisted of 1 bunch each 

 of Hartford Prolific ( A^ery poorly grown) 

 and Brighton, a small unripe cluster. 



After concluding my notes on the 

 fruit exhibit, I was requested to act as 

 sole judge on flowers. This I found 

 rather an easy task, as there was only 

 about one or two exhibits in each class. 

 The whole exhibition of flowers had 

 been well arranged and appeared to the 

 best advantage. Two or three large 

 lots of greenhouse plants assisted very 

 materially to give character to the 

 whole exliibit. Tlie Board very kindly 



ordered the re-payment of my railroad 

 fare, the amo\nit of which will be found 

 to the credit of the Association in my 

 account. 



In conclusion, I beg to suggest to 

 those having control of the exhibition at 

 Port Hope, the advisability of adopting 

 some means in future whereby a larger 

 number of people in that County may 

 be induced to bring out their fruits and 

 flowers for com])etition. If this were 

 done to any reasonable extent, the East 

 Durham County Agricultural Society, 

 with the assistance, such as they now 

 have from the Hope Society, and from 

 the town of Port Hope, could make such 

 an exhibition of fruit and flowers as 

 might not be equalled but by few places' 

 in Ontario. 



Kespectfully submitted, 



Thos. Beall. 

 Lindsay, Nov. 1, 1884. 



PEGGING DOWN ROSE BUSHES. 



When dwarf bushes form growths in 

 autumn, from five to eight feet in 

 length, it seems a pity to cut them all 

 off at pruning time m spring, and where 

 there are many plants grown we would 

 strongly advise that a number of these 

 growths be left uncut, and peg them 

 down. They will not, if very strong, 

 bend down to touch the ground, as 

 some may think of trying to root them : 

 but this is not the object, the principle 

 being to bend them over and peg them 

 about a foot or so from the ground, 

 allowing them to remain full length, 

 and every bud along the stem will soon 

 send up a shoot, and these pegged down 

 stems will bloom very profusely. For 

 profuse blooming no plan will equal 

 this, and it is rather surprising that 

 pegging is not oftener practiced. Any 

 one wishing to possess a mass of Roses, 

 growing and blooming in semi-wild 

 confusion, could not do better than peg 

 down the shoots over some bads. — 

 Viclca Mayczlne. 



