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its ancestors, even if not the land of its birth, as the Virgiiiischer 

 Rosonapfel." 



" Of the coast apples in Russia I seem to know very little. AVe 

 had no opportunit}' of seeing them in bearing. The climate is not 

 our climate, j'et experience is valuable. Dr Regel selected out of a 

 longer list 41 kinds which he recommended, and out of these he 

 marked ten kinds with double stars. These ten kinds are Anto- 

 novka, Aport, (autumn), Borovinka, Behii Naliv, Red Summer 

 Calvillo, Koritschnevoe (Zimmetapfel) , Koritschnevoe Ananasnoe, 

 Polosatoe Novgorodskoe, Skvosnoe Naliv, Skriusapfel, Titovka." 



REPORT OF THE CORRESPONDING SECRETARY. 



GRANVILLE FERNALD, OF HARRISON. 



The .year 1882 in our State, although disappointing the well- 

 grounded expectations of the orchardists, has yet a lesson of 

 encouragement to all, and it ma}' be safe to assert that the faith in 

 fruit culture as worthy to lead most other branches of farming, and 

 thorough determination to make it so, is as well established in the 

 minds of onr farmers as any other sentiment or resolve. 



A digest of the reports on the condition of general fruit-culture in 

 the United States, submitted to the last meeting of the American 

 Pomological Society at its session in Boston, in 1881, will show that 

 in eveiy State from Maine to Texas, and in many western and in all 

 the Pacific States, the subject of fruit-culture is receiving increased 

 attention, and is only next to wheat and corn-growing in the regards 

 of the best and most intelligent agriculturists. 



The last year opened with great promise of an abundant crop of 

 fi'uits. If blossoms are a reliable indication of a fruitful 3-ear,we 

 were certainly justified in expecting a rich harvest; but later on, 

 certain causes conspired to blight the young growing fruit, and the 

 hopes of the sanguine orchardist were sadly disappointed. Yet 

 there remained some encouraging conditions, and spite of the small 

 crop of inferior quality of fruit, a handsome display graced the 

 tables of the annual exhibition, and the prices of apples since harvest 

 time to the present have so stimulated the belief in the success of 

 orcharding, that the aspects of fruit-growing at the i)resent time 



