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use, let him ascertain wliicli ol' luilf a dozen standard sorts snit his 

 soil and location best, and then plant at least nine-tenths of his trees 

 with this. 



1 wish to say in eonclnding these few remarks that our Societj' 

 embraces a large number of subjects, and I have barely alluded to 

 cue or two, but you will soon have the pleasure of hearing interest- 

 ing papers and discussions upon many of them, which I feel confi- 

 dent will be practical and of lasting benefit to us all. 



Following the deliver}- of his address, the President read an 

 original [)aper contributed by Dr T. H. Hoskins of Newport, Vt., 

 on " Hardy Winter Ai)ples," an article then recently written by 

 himself for publication on ''Nomenclature of Russets," and an 

 article on the same subject by Dr. Hoskins. Mr. Gardiner's article 

 was originally published in the Hoyne Farm, and was copied b}' Dr. 

 Hoskins, with comments, in the Vermont Watchman ; and the notes 

 by Dr. H., here given, were published in the last named paper in 

 pursuance of the subject ; all of which are here inserted in their 

 order. 



HARDY WINTER APPLES. 



BY DK. T. H. HOSKINS. 



The Baldwin is the great market apple for winter in New Eng- 

 land, and has held that position for so long a time that it must be a 

 wonderful fruit that will replace it in the regard and confidence of 

 gi'owers and consumers. It is quite as hard to dethrone a popular 

 fruit as to revolutionize a popular government ; and as with govern- 

 ments, so it will be with fruits, they must themselves deteriorate far 

 before the people will begin to consider the question of dispensing 

 with them. 



But we cannot, even in behalf of our greatest favorites, prevail to 

 reverse the fiat of nature when she cries, " thus far, but no farther !" 

 It must be conceded that the Baldwin apple is a fruit of southern 

 New England only, and that more than half of our area has a 

 climate in which that apple can never be grown with profit, if even 

 at all. 



Unfortunately, not onlv the Baldwin, but all the other standard 

 and marketable winter apples of the countrv, partake, more or less, 

 of this intolerance of severe winter temperature. The Rhode Island 

 Greening and the Roxbury Russet are scarcely at all hardier than 

 the Baldwin, and the Northern Hpy only a little hardier than these. 



