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REPORT ON THE EXHIBITION OF FRUIT AT THE WINTER MEETING. 



It was not expected when the invitation was sent out for fruit- 

 growers to exhibit at the winter meeting, that the collection would 

 be extensive, as the state of the weather would not permit of the 

 moving of fruit a great distance with safety. But although the 

 thermometer indicated a temperature of ten degrees below zero on 

 the morning of the first day of the convention, a creditable number 

 of speoimens were presented from various parts of the State, as 

 will be seen by the list given below, and all in good condition. 



One of the objects of the exhibition was to correct errors in 

 nomenclature. There is among orchardists great« confusion in 

 relation to names, especially of the newer and less known varie- 

 ties. Many varieties were shown at this meeting as the American 

 Golden Kusset, and perhaps this name is applied erroneously to 

 more varieties than any other. 



The President showed several kinds of apples sent to him from 

 Dexter, without names ; also, the Naked-limbed Greening from 

 Waldo county, and the following named varieties from his own 

 orchards, viz: Baldwin, Hubbardston Nonsuch, Rhode Island 

 Greening, Black Oxford, Northern Spy, Sweet Russet (2 varie- 

 ties), Deane, Poughkeepsie Russet. 



A package of fruit was shown by T. S. McLellan of Brunswick, 

 for a name. Fruit large, flattish, partially striped with dull red 

 on a green ground. Quality good. No one could name it. 



Samuel Guild of Augusta, presented some fine specimens of 

 Yellow Bellflower, Jewett's Fine Red, Hubbardston Nonsuch, 

 King of Tompkins County, American Golden Russet, Rockwood 

 and Red Canada ; also, the Winter White, an apple not much dis- 

 seminated, and one variety name unknown. 



Henry Ingalls of Wiscasset, exhibited Minister, Mother, Eng- 

 lish Russet, Jewett's Fine Red, Danvers Winter Sweet, King of 

 Tompkins County, Wagener, Swaar, and one kind erroneously 

 marked Nox'thern Spy. 



Specimens of Yellow Bellflower, Noyes, Ribston Pippin, and a 

 sweet apple, name unknown, also, pears Easter Beurre, were 

 shown by Calvin Spaulding of Hallowell. 



Fourteen varieties of winter apples were exhibited by J. Pope & 

 Son of Manchester, also a seedling sweet apple. 



Several variettes were shown by D. H. Weeks of Riverside, for 

 name, among which were found the Hubbardston Nonsuch, Star- 



