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when cleared np are of little value. Now if ever}' one will leave 

 these gullies in a natural state, not only the bushes but trees will 

 spring up, and the farmer who has been greatly troubled by the 

 want of water, will find that he has an abundant snpph% beside a 

 growth of valuable trees upon land fit for nothing else. 



To return to apples. But a few years since the foreign export of 

 apples was confined to the Newtown Pippin, shipped b}' one man, 

 Mr. Poll, from New York, but now in a good season the export 

 exceeds a million of barrels, and except in very rare seasons of 

 extraordinar}' abundance, there seems no pi'obabiHty but what 

 good apples will always find a sale at a fair price As in the pro- 

 gress of this meeting 3'ou will hoar essa3's and discussions b}' those 

 well qualified to speak upon the various special subjects appertain- 

 ing to pomology, I shall not touch upon them at all, but continue 

 with a few general remarks. 



There has been a great discussion and difference of opinion as to 

 the different kinds of apples one ought to cultivate. Allow me to 

 sa}^ in answer that different soils and locations suit different apples. 

 For instance, with all my endeavors, I find it impossible to raise a 

 barrel of good Roxbur}- Russets, an apple that so many, and some 

 of them located not far from me, find to be the most profitable apple 

 they can raise. On the other hand, I have been peculiarl}' success- 

 ful with the Bellflower — large crops annually, and generally of 

 better size, color and flavor, than any others seen at our exhibitions. 

 In consequence of this I am ever}' year setting out more trees of 

 the same sort. I therefore would advise every one to experiment 

 with different trees of the standard varieties, and when he ascer- 

 tains whieli does the best, then go in largelv for that. The 2,enei"al 

 opinion is that the Baldwin is the tree for market and also for home 

 use, and that nine-tenths of ever}- orchard should be Baldwin. Bnt 

 as I have already said, first ascertain what variety will flourish best 

 with 30U, whether Baldwin, Roxbury Russet, Bellflower, R. I. 

 Greening, Talman Sweet, or some other standard, and tiien plant 

 largely, if not exclusively-, of the variet}' you find succeeds best 

 with you. 



Inquiry has often been made as to the best season for planting 

 trees. I believe that taking one 3'ear with another, the spring is 

 the most safe, but I have had great success with autumn planting. 

 It depends upon the season. If, after planting in the autumn, 

 dry weather prevails, and this continues till the ground freezes, 



