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ARTIFICIAL FRUIT. 



Mr. Townend Glover, of Fishkill Landing, exhibited at the 

 Farmers' Club of the American Institute on the 18th inst., spe- 

 cimens of artificial fruit, amounting to 204 varieties in duplicate, 

 consisting of apples, pears, plums, cherries, strawberries, nec- 

 tarines, apricots, quinces, grapes, pomegranates, figs, gooseber- 

 ries, currants, Osage orange, various nuts, and models of leaves 

 of various fruit trees, showing the depredations of insects very 

 minutely. 



The above w^ere modeled by Mr. Glover in a composition pre- 

 pared by himself, and painted in oil colors, representing in a 

 most beautiful and perfect manner the natural fruit. These 

 specimens have been transported over 600 miles, and frequently 

 unpacked and repacked without showing the least deterioration, 

 which demonstrates the superiority of this method of represent- 

 ing fruit over wax, which is generally used. 



Mr. Glover has engaged to prepare specimens of fruit for sev- 

 eral Horticultural and Pomological Societies, so that accurate 

 specimens of the varieties of fruit may at any time be examined, 

 and we congratulate them on the acquisition of such a collection. 

 It will aid those who design to purchase trees, in their selection, 

 and if properly used, may add a guarantee, which in many in- 

 stances has been sadly wanted. I have ever considered it one 

 of the grossest acts of wickedness for a person to sell young trees 

 and other fruit plants as genuine, knowing they were not so, 

 thus causing many to consume years of their lives in bringing to 

 maturity plants utterly worthless. 



We are happy to state that the Institute, on the recommenda- 

 tion of the Farmers' Club, unanimously awarded a gold medal to 

 Mr. Glover. 



A. CHANDLER. 



