26G MAINE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



from fall apples well exposed to hybridization from the most 

 desirable winter varieties. In this way, it is believed, new and 

 choice varieties of apples may be produced, which arc better 

 suited to our climate, soil and situation, than any we now have, 

 valuable as many of these are. 



Your committee feel that they cannot too strongly urge this 

 matter on the attention of the cultivators of our soil, nor they 

 be stimulated to too earnest endeavors in this direction ; for, 

 sure we are, it will ultimate in the accumulation of an amount 

 of wealth, comfort, rational enjoyment and contentment, of 

 which few have, at present, any conception, and widely in con- 

 trast with the present state of things. 



"When Maine is appropriated to the growth of fruit and food- 

 producing animals — her hill-sides covered with orchards bear- 

 ing the choicest fruits, her meadows loaded with luxuriant crops 

 of grass, and her stables multiplied and filled with the choicest 

 domestic animals, as the Creator designed, and made her soil 

 to secure, then will her sons and her daughters cling to homes 

 embowered in shrubbery, and surrounded with the beautiful; 

 and when the biting frosts, the howling winds, the driving storms 

 and drifting snows of winter come, they will delight to gather 

 in the " vestment warm " to read and to think, and enjoy social 

 life, with the fruit-basket loaded with blushing apples on the 

 " chimney piece," instead of hieing to distant climes to feed on 

 "hog and hominy," and be shaken out of their boots with fever 

 and ague. 



Darius Forbes, /or the Committee. 



