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one side of those grafted trees bears one year and the other 

 the other. There are hundreds and thousands of trees that 

 have been grafted from that old tree. Almost every man in 

 Bradford and Haverhill, and all through Essex County, has 

 got them ; and they have gone beyond Essex County. It is a 

 fact that some Baldwins will bear one year and some another, 

 and you can change the bearing year by picking off the fruit- 

 buds, I have no doubt. 



I take issue with the statement that we can do as well by 

 setting out the Northern Spy as we can with other varieties. 

 In 1849 I set out six out of a hundred and thirty Northern 

 Spy trees that cauie from New York. I have cultivated those 

 trees on good land. I have grafted even five of them, leaving 

 one, in hopes that it might do something. It spreads forty 

 feet, with an upright form, but I never saw the time when I 

 had a barrel of app'es on that tree in one 3'ear, and those I 

 did have were so knurly that you could hardly put them in 

 your pocket without wearing it out. It is no use to try to 

 raise such kind of fruit in Essex County. They have them 

 in Connecticut, no doubt. The gentleman says, "Hold on !" 

 I have been holding on since 1849, and I do not get any 

 fruit. You may trim it every year, and take splendid care 

 of it, as I did, but you will not get any fruit. What am I 

 going to do? I say, graft them over, or dig them up. 



We have an apple here that does first-rate in this locality. 

 Some call it the Hubbardston Nonsuch, but it is not so big as 

 the Hubbardston Nonsuch. It is what is known by farmers, 

 more particularly down in the eas'erly part of Essex County, 

 as the Ribstone Pippin. It is a splendid apple, and, raised 

 anywhere in Essex Count}^, it has a better flavor than the 

 Hubbardston Nonsucli. It is one of the best apples I raise, 

 and it will grow thicker than any other tree, almost, and 

 throw out more fruit-buds ; and if you do not have fruit-buds, 

 you will not be likely to get many apples, — that is, here. 



As far as the Rhode Island Greening is concerned, we 

 cannot do anything in this locality with that, or with the 

 Russet, either. I have got nice Rhode Island Greening trees 

 standing in good land, and I have never got from them more 

 than a tenth part what they ought to bear. You cannot grow 

 the Rhode Island Greening in Newbury, or Beverly, or any- 



