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different varieties of Russets, Gravenstein, Newtown Pippins, 

 Greenings, Fallawater, Fameuse, Arctics and Alexanders, four- 

 teen varieties. 



Piscataquis county: In 93 orchards containing 22,830 trees, 

 the largest orchard numbering 2,000 trees and the smallest 30, 

 we find the following : Tolman Sweet, Fall Harvey, Fallawater, 

 Pound Sweet, Nodhead, Yellow Transparent, Gano, Mildings, 

 St. Lawrence, William's Favorite, Baldwins, Ben Davis, Starks, 

 Red Russets, Greenings, Fameuse, Arctics, Kings, Northern 

 Spy, Wolf River, Rolfe, Black Oxfords, Mann, Golden Russets, 

 Peewaukee, and others, numbering twenty-five different 

 varieties. 



Now I wish I could give you the history of this work in Ken- 

 nebec county. The work has been more thoroughly done in 

 Kennebec than in any other county, but I haven't the data ; all 

 the note-books are not in, and each note-book should show about 

 100 orchards. But in hurriedly running over these books since 

 ten o'clock, I find the varieties as follows : Baldwin, Ben Davis, 

 Rhode Island Greening, Twenty Ounce, Kings, Hubbardston, 

 Tolman, Astrachan, Bellflower, Spy, Sweet Bough, Maiden 

 Blush, Porter, Gano, Nodhead, Wealthy, Mcintosh Red, Russet, 

 Roxbury Russet, Fallawater, Gravenstein, Grimes Golden, 

 Fameuse, Pound Sweet, Fall Harvey, Wagener. 



I have not the data for Cumberland county. The report is 

 not in. Franklin county has not been completed. But I think 

 I have given you enough to show the error in the statement that 

 we have often heard made, that this winter killing, whatever it 

 was, was confined to Baldwins. Now I know from personal 

 examination, and from the reports in many cases I could point 

 you to the total destruction of orchards. I know of one instance 

 in which a whole orchard was wiped out entirely. 



Now when you speak of the question of slope and cant, the 

 natural position of the land, etc., I look upon a tree as very much 

 like a human being, and the more you investigate the sooner 

 I tliink you will come to the same opinion. We have orchards 

 in the State that have been neglected for years, that this year 

 have given a good crop — haven't had a plow — there hasn't been 

 a hog in the orchard, — there hasn't been a limb pruned or any- 

 thing done, and yet for some reason or other those men who 

 owned the orchards have put in from 500 to 1,000 barrels of 



