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10. If you have any experience in raising seedling grapes, please 

 communicate it ? 



11. Please state your mode of propagating vines, whether by layers, 

 cuttings or eyes, and your opinion as to the best mode 



1 2. Please add any general remarks you may think of interest. 



Marshall P. Wilder, 

 E. W. Bull, 

 Nathan Durfee, 



Committee of the Board. 



The returns in response to the foregoing circular have been 

 less numerous, and some of those received were less full and 

 explicit than was expected, while others realized the most 

 sanguine expectations of your committee, evincing a careful 

 and thorough investigation, much ripe experience, and results 

 very satisfactory and important to the fruit culture of the 

 Commonwealth . 



These returns your committee have critically examined, and 

 herewith annex the general purport of the replies to the ques- 

 tions proposed. The number of the answer, in each case, 

 corresponds with that of the question in the circular, to which 

 it responds. 



ANSWERS TO INTERROGATORIES. 



APPLES. 



1. The best six are Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Porter, 

 Roxbury Russet, Red Astrachan, Golden or Lyman Sweet. 



The best twelve are Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Hub- 

 bardston Nonesuch, Large Yellow Bough, Porter, Williams' 

 Favorite, Red Astrachan, Ladies' Sweet, Gravenstein, Roxbury 

 Russet, Mother, Golden or Lyman Sweet. 



2. For an orchard of 100 trees, 50 Baldwins, 25 Rhode 

 Island Greening, 10 Roxbury Russet, 5 Hubbardston None- 

 such, 5 Porter, 5 Williams' Favorite. One cultivator in the 

 western part of the State, says that for an orchard of one hun- 

 dred trees, he would have all of them the Congress apple. 

 (This is a large, handsome, red apple, ripening late in the 

 autumn.) 



For an orchard of 1,000 trees, 500 Baldwins, 200 Rhode Island 

 Greening, 75 Hubbardston Nonesuch, 60 Roxbury Russet, 45 

 Porter, 25 Williams' Favorite, 20 Gravenstein, 20 Ladies' 



