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Did the past winter injure many trees? Whicli liind of stock does the 

 better, home-grown or foreign? Have any pears grown in your locality 

 been sent out of the State to market? What varieties would you recom- 

 mend for home use? For market? 



Plums — Are plums grown in your locality for market? If so, is plum 

 culture found profitable? What varieties do you recommend? Is the 

 black-knot injuring the trees to any extent? To what extent is the fruit 

 injured by the curculio? Do you use any remedies to destroy curculio? 



Cherries — Are cherries successfully grown by you and your neigh- 

 bors? What difficulty, if any, do you have in raising them? What 

 varieties do you recommend? 



Strawberries — To what extent is the strawberry grown by the 

 farmers for home use? When do you find the best time to set out the 

 plants? Name varieties you know to be good for Maine. Do you mulch 

 the vines? 



Easpberries — Which do you prefer, the Red or the Cap varieties? 

 Name the Red varieties you consider best for Maine. Do you protect 

 busiies in winter? If so, how? Name Cap varieties you would recom- 

 mend. 



Blackberries— Name the varieties you prefer for Maine. Do you 

 have any special difficulty in raising them? Do you protect bushes in 

 winter? If so. liow? 



Grapks — Are your people raising them for market? Are the vines 

 troubled any by insects? What varieties do you recommend for Maine? 

 Do you protect vines in winter? If so, how? 



Currants — Is the fruit (not foliage) injured by insects to any extent? 

 Are currants a profitable crop to raise? What varieties do you recom- 

 mend? 



Gooseberries — Is the gooseberry grown for market with you? What 

 varieties do you recommend? 



THE GENERAL QUESTIONS. 



Returns were received from about 100 fruit growers, repre- 

 senting all the counties in the State as follows : Androscoggin 6 ; 

 Aroostook 6 ; Cumberland 4 ; Franklin 17 ; Hancock 4 ; Kennebec 

 6 ; Knox 11 ; Lincoln 11 ; Oxford 6 ; Penobscot 1 ; Piscataquis 3 ; 

 Sagadahoc 4 ; Somerset 8 ; Waldo 3 ; Washington 1 ; York 1. They 

 are from representative fruit growers, and the information they gave 

 has proved of great service to the committee in reaching their con- 

 clusions. A brief summary of the information received follows : 



So far as the returns indicate the source from which the nurser}'' 

 stock is obtained, 75 per cent comes from New York, and 25 per 



