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a grape not much known among us, but of great excellence, 

 being by a long- ways ahead of anything ever seen at our pomo- 

 logiciil fairs. Almost equally noteworthy were his Victoria and 

 Wilmot's Hamburghs. Mr. Wade's best specimens were elegant 

 clusters of Victoria Hamburgh, White Muscat and Wilmot's Ham- 

 burgh, lie also had five bunches of Muscat of Alexandria, White 

 Muscat, Trentham Black, Golden Hamburgh and Chasselas de 

 Fontainebleau. Now that we are here, let us follow down this 

 table loaded with 



The Best Apples in the Hall, selected by their exhibitors from 

 among the grand lots in the hall, with a view of competing for 

 the prizes offered for the best ten specimens of each variety shown. 

 And a grand sight it is; one hundred and nineteen plates — every 

 apple on which is superb and perfect, and all of which will this 

 week be on exhibition at Philadelphia, where we are positive they 

 will take no "back seats." The leading contributors here are 

 Pulsifer Brothers, East Poland ; Friend Joseph Taylor, Belgrade ; 

 A. Smith, Monmouth ; S. H. Cole, Lewiston, and S. C. Harlow, 

 Bangor. The apples on this table are choice representative speci- 

 mens, and we deem it fair to say no such apples were ever before 

 brought together for a competitive exhibition in this State. The 

 sorts that appear most noteworthy are the Nodhead, of which 

 Friend Taylor has the best — Mr. Pulsifer's coming close to his ; 

 Baldwin, one of which, showed by Mr. Smith, who leads off, 

 weighs IO2 ozs ; Roxbury Russet, the variety from which a larger 

 profit is realized than from any other grown in Maine on account 

 of its late keeping habit ; Yellow Bellflower, the best being shown 

 by G. H Andrews of Monmouth ; Fairbanks, a highly esteemed 

 and handsome sort which originated in Winthrop ; Hubbardston 

 Nonsuch, of which Pulsifer Brothers have the best ; Northern Spy, 

 C. S. Pope, Manchester, taking the lead ; Rhode Island Greening, 

 Spitzenburg, King of Tompkins County, Gravenstein, Williams' 

 Favorite, and Porter — Pulsifer Brothers showing some very ele- 

 gant specimens of the latter, the best we think, ever grown in the 

 State, and among the handsomest in the hall. A good arrange- 

 ment of this table was shown in having each plate of a certain 

 variety grown by different exhibitors placed side by side for easy 

 examination and comparison by the judges; this being only one 

 of a number of sensible little plans iostituted by the managers for 



