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is very hardy, and may prove valuable here. It bore with me this 

 year for the first time, and very heavily. Quality good, or very 

 good. 



Late Strawberry. Sec. Goodale. One of the richest flavored 

 apples we have. A good grower in the nursery, but never comes 

 to be a large tree ; hardy and productive. An autumn apple, 

 called Late in distinction from the Early Strawberry. 



Northern Spy. Frieno Taylor. I had this variety growing a 

 long while without bearing, and was about to graft them over, 

 but friend Goodale being at my place, said " Don't do so by any 

 means, be patient a while longer," and so I waited, and I have 

 since been obliged to prop up the limbs to save from breaking 

 down. It is not an early bearer, and it needs good culture, but 

 the fruit is very excellent, and holds its flavor until very late. 



Col. Swett. Mr. Carter of Paris, had trees of Northern Spy of 

 Mr. Goodale fifteen or twenty years ago, which have been in full 

 bearing now for some years, and he esteems it beyond all others. 

 His Baldwins, planted at the same time, are dying out gradually, 

 but the Spy is much hardier, growing vigorously, and flourishing 

 first-rate. Two 3'ears ago last Spring, he set out two hundred of 

 them, as he says, "for the boys." He thought he couid leave 

 them nothing better than an orchard of Northern Spy trees. It 

 needs pruning when young to open the top, which grows close 

 and full. After they come to full bearing the top is more open. 



Mr. Asa Moore. So far as my observation goes, young trees 

 have not done as well as they would had the knife been used more 

 freely in thinning out the close tops. I have seeu the fruit with- 

 out any red on it for want of any sunshine. With suitable pruning 

 when young, and good cultivation, it is one of the very best we 

 have in all respects. 



Sec. Goodale. I have grown the Spy probably as long as any 

 one in the State, and its merits have been more fully appreciated 

 each year since it came to bearing. The young trees need a 

 judicious, but not excessive thinning of the tops, as full bearing 

 causes the top to become more open. It requires, and will richly 

 pay for good cultivation. There are few apples which show a 

 wider difference in value by reason of good culture or neglect, 

 than this. The good are very go/>d, and bear a very high price ; 

 and the poor, small, pale ones, are poor indeed. 



Mr. Varney. I fully endorse all which has been said in favor 



