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Mr. Slade. Not at all. 



]\Ir. Cheever. Won't you describe the August Sweeting ? 

 Is tliere any other name for it ? 



Mr, Warner. I do not think there is any other name. 

 At least, I have never found any other apple that answered 

 that description. It is an apple that grows about as large as 

 the Hubbardston. It is cream color on one side, with a pale 

 red stripe up and down on the other. About half of it is 

 colored. It is very juicy, and of excellent flavor. It is an 

 apple that lasts about a month, and sells very readily for an 

 eating apple. 



Question. Superior to the Sweet Bough? 



Mr. Warner. Yes, sir ; I think so. 



Question. Have 3'ou known anybody to change the bearing 

 year by picking off the blossoms ? 



Mr. Slade. Not of my personal knowledge ; but some 

 3'ears ago, a gentleman from Mansfield, who was visiting my 

 place, wanted to know how it happened that ray trees bore 

 that year, and I simply told him, just as I have told you. 

 "Well," said he, "I have tried it, and I have changed the 

 bearing year by doing that." I saw him not more than three 

 weeks ago, and he told me that he got more apples this year 

 than all his neighbors put together, for his neighbors did not 

 have any, and he had a fair crop. 



Mr. Perry. There is one orchard in our neighborhood 

 which bore this year bountifully ; I do not know of another. 

 There is one in the town of Sherborn, but that is the only 

 other one I know within sixteen miles of us. I went to 

 the orchard in our village to get some Porters, and, look- 

 ing around, I saw that there were a good many Greenings 

 and Baldwins in the orchard, and I asked the man how it 

 happened that his trees bore the odd year. He said that he 

 had brought it to that state by picking ofi" the apples when 

 they were young, and picking off the blossoms, and keeping 

 the orchard under good cultivation all the time. He had in 

 his orchard, Avhich was not a large one, three hundred and 

 fifty bushels of Porters, which he sold for two dollars a 

 bushel as fast as he could pick them. I think he had as many 

 Baldwins and Greenings, and all of them good ; and hardly 

 any worms, or anything of the kind. I thought then that it 



