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and whose business it is to cheat the public, as a general 

 thing, you can go to some responsible nursery-man and go 

 into a row of trees from which none have been removed, and 

 take the first pick of those trees, you will get an orchard that 

 will be far superior to any trees after they have been picked 

 over, although you may find just as good-looking trees the 

 second or third year afterwards, in the same rows. The 

 difference is this : If you go into a block of trees from which 

 none have been selected, you get the most vigorous stock, 

 and they become trees quicker than the others, and this vigor 

 lasts through life. It is the vigor they have at their roots, 

 and they are much superior to the others. In fact, after a 

 row of trees has been picked over, I do not think the others 

 are worth much. They would not be to me. They answer 

 to sel}. These refuse trees are the ones that are sold by those 

 people who send out agents to get orders from the Massachu- 

 setts people. 



I do not think of anything else, unless you ask me some 

 questions. 



Mr. Ordway. In reference to the apple-worm : what lays 

 the Qgg that produces the worm, and where is it laid? 



Mr. ]\IooRE. It is a miller that lays the egg, usually in 

 the calyx of the blossom, or the little apple, when it is just 

 formed. 



IVIr. Ordway. I do not understand it to be a grub? 



Mr. Moore. No, sir. The egg hatches there, and, as I 

 understand it, the worm goes into the apple, perfects itself, 

 and then drops and enters the ground, or crawls under the 

 dead bark. One of my friends used to destroy a good many 

 of them by placing old cloths in the forks of his trees. 

 Towards fall, he would find the cloths perfectly covered with 

 worms, that had crawled out of the apples, and destroj'ed 

 them. It amounts to the same thing if you pick up the 

 apples and give them to your pigs, or if you grind them into 

 cider, as some people do, and drink it. 



Question. I would like to inquire in regard to quince- 

 culture, if it is profitable? 



Mr. Moore. I used to raise quinces very successfully ; 

 but a few years ago someth'ng happened to the trees, and 

 they died on my hands, and I have not succeeded in growing 



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