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where that way. You cannot get Russets, either. There 

 are exceptions, I know ; but that is the general fact. I have 

 dug up sixteen or twenty nice Russet tre?, as good as any- 

 body grows. I have got lots more of them. I guess I have 

 got four or five barrels that I picked from five or six trees, 

 and I made out to get one barrel for ray own family. I could 

 not sell the rest to anybody. They were not worth putting 

 into the cider-mill. 



John B. Moore, of Concord. It is a ma'ter of importance 

 to raise seedling fruits adapted to our several localities. I 

 have noticed, in what has been said here with regard to 

 apples, that Mr. Gold, of Connecticut, has spoken of certain 

 varieties that do well out there. The gentleman from Essex 

 says they will not do anything with him. Now, that is 

 perfectly true. An apple that will grow well here in Eastern 

 Massachusetts, will not do anything, for instance, in Berkshire 

 County. And here is another fact wh'ch you will find to be 

 true, if you examine into the matter carefully : that an apple 

 which originated on a cold, wet soil, will be very sure to do 

 well on any soil that you have a mind to plant it on ; but an 

 apple that originated and comes to perfection on a warm 

 soil, you may be just as certain as that you sit in those seats, 

 will not produce anything better than carrots in a cold, wet 

 soil. That is known to be a fact, from very careful observation. 



Now, in regard to the Hubbardston Nonsuch : I have had the 

 curiosity, among other things, to go and see the original tree, 

 which is standing about four miles from the centre of Hub- 

 bardston, on the western slope of a piece of very cold pasture- 

 land, in an orchard of about half an acre of natural fruit-trees. 

 That tree is some sixty-five or seventy years old. The top is 

 decayed and broken olF, but branches are starting out, and 

 two years ago, it bore two or three barrels of very good apples. 

 That is one instance. That tree originated on a cold soil. 

 You may put a Hubbardston Nonsuch tree on any soil where 

 an apple-tree will grow, and it will bear apples. You may 

 put the Baldwin in that cold soil, and it will not produce any 

 apples, or but very few. You may take as another illustra- 

 tion the American Golden Russet, about Boston, which is not 

 the true American Golden Russet. The conical-shaped apple, 

 with a red cheek, which is sometimes called the American 



