The Daily spy. [volume] (Worcester [Mass.]) 1845-1850, 1848-10-20
Worcester County Horticultural Society.
REPORT

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES,

WHICH FecelVeu inc pOclely premium oil %, as
the best Seeding peach. The Committee named
it the Rowland Peach. Grapes: Isabella
Miss Sarah Waldo. Apples: varieties
Pears: varieties; Plums Orleans; Grapes
Sweet Water.
R. D. Dunbar. Pears: varieties Grapes
Isabella.
Horatio Gates. Pears seckel; Peaches
Blood Cling ~ and Crawford's Late.
Jonathan Read Shrewsbury. Apples 2 va
rieties.
Miss Frances Wheeler. Apples; Blue Pear
main.
George Williams, Northboro'. Apples Ham
burg.
Silas Allen, Shrewsbury. Apples: Rockport
Sweeting. This apple keeps as we'll as the
Roxbury Russet; it is OF good size and most ex-
cellent eating qualities. We consider it very
valuable aquisition.] Also Is other varieties OF
the Apple, among the names Of which we notice
"Gentleman's Blush" Capt Allen may re st as
sured that this appellation is unquestionably
apochryphal. Pears varieties; Peaches: 6
varieties; [among them the Red Cheek Melocoton
which took the So premium as the best plate OF
peaches. Also Orange Ounces, Tbig ones
surely Shrewsbury is the banner town of Quin-
ces.
Stephen Salisbury. Apples varieties
Pears: 10 varieties Ounces Portugal.
T. Holman, Leicester. Apples: A varites
1AO"lS ShdPlh' 1APpiHS. q varieties.
Solomon Parsons. Apples 3 varieties
Mrs E. Salisbury. Apples: Pomme d'Apis
]or Lady Apple Pears: Brown Beurre.
lilly Chafin, Holden. Apples: varieties.
George A. Trumbull. Peaches: Seeding
Pitt Holmes. Apples: II varieties: Pears;
Peaches: Seeding varieties.
Capt Isaac Southgate, Leicester. Apples and
pears varieties OF each.
Peter Fay, Southboro.' Apples 81 varieties
Mr. Eav's collection was
received the premium Of So, as the I'd best COL
lection OF that fruit
Obadiah B. Hudson. Apples varieties
among them plate OF Hubbardston Nonesuch
containing the best single apple in the Exhibition
The Society must therefore pay him premium
of 81.
Elhanan Batchelder, Sutton. Apples: s va
rleties Note-Hubbardston Nonesuch is the
true name for Sutton Beauty
A. Fl. Halves. Apples varieties; (seed.
ling) Peaches Isabella Grapes, and Melons
Jonas H. Allen, Shrewsbury. Apples: sorts;
Peaches Golden Melocoton; lis there any such y
Cotton (This is very first rate kindly and q
o."'r varieties. This collection took the premi
u"1 ~ $3 as the best collection OF Peaches.
.;o. a Craig, Leicester. Apples: 6 varie-
George W. 'EEhton, W. BoyIston. Apples.
Charles Nash.s"XotnSn,, o '" Doyis.on' Peaches
autumn fruit; Port6F Ep p IL: very me
pears 2 Varieties. GrsdS Apples; Hamburg
Fe Isb3 v crawtord g NartE Isabella
| com ra.aor~ ..hiah yras gro Apples Lys-
premium Of 81 as the ID best "de that received the
tied Mr. c. also had 8 other Rgle apple exhib.
DR. 0. H. Blood. Apples anetties of apples.
OF each; Peaches: Catharine cars plates
/ Nameless. stone and
]. s. Clarke. Pears and Grapes.
c. H. Whiting. A jar of Tomato Figs.
article had been prepared over year; and Shis
the Committee saw that it was good for food, an
that it was pleasant to the eyes, and thing to
be desired to make one wise Tin the knowledge
| Of such matters,) they took OF the fruit thereof
and did eat, Mr. w. conserving thereto And
their eyes were opened, SO that after carefully
reclosing the jar, they unanimously voted that
there was no Gad taste about its contents!
Henry Eames. Apples: varieties; Honey
Boxes, the beautiful product of well organic.
ed and thrifty little community, who sent these
| specimens Of their handwork on purpose to prove
| to us, that they are the first among mechanics for
ingenuity and skill as they have ever been ac
knowledged to be the first among horticultural
lists in their passionate taste tor flowers And we
may well thank them for their other teachings
that honest industry is the surest path to prose- er.
! iy,-that idleness is criminal, and that the sum
ny hours OF life are the time in which TO prepare
for the certain approach Of old age and the IN
| known future beyond
j. c. Mason. Pears plates Isabella
Grapes.
E. and L. Nelson, Upton. Apples and Cling.
stone Peaches.
5. Smith. Seeding Peaches.
c. w. Forbush, Grafton. Apples: ID varie-
ties; Pears Marie Louise (6ne) and others.
| Samuel Wood, Grafton. Nameless Pears.
Charles Hadwin. Apples Leland's Pippin
| [sometimes called N. Y. Spice. This is one of
the handsomest apples we ever saw. Color. on
the shady Sides greenish yellow ground motled
with crimson stripes; on the sunny side, becom
ing dark crimson. Size and form, not very diff
| ferent from the Baldwin. The flavor is also most
excellent, and tree OF this variety deserves
place in the smallest collection. It's in eating
from the first of October to Winter.1 Mr. H. al.
| SO exhibited other varieties OF apples; Pears,
nameless; Peaches, seedlings. n"
Luke Brummett, Leicester. 6 varieties Of Ap.
Piles. .M ne ,MH
Joseph Sargent Leicester. Pears, of an old
variety with the fancy name OF Gen lack Taylor.
This way Of naming fruits Is OF no benefit to any
one, and always troublesome to the committee,
who make the report.
Hon Isaac Davis. Apples Baldwin and Dou-
Bile Towering; plates pears Ounces Orange
and Pearshaped. Note Some distinguished cul-
tiyators are beginning to question whetherthe Or.
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