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ment. We consider this orchard ahnost perfect. When the 

 committee were on this lot, the question came up as to the 

 value of such trees, and it was the unanimous opinion that 

 twenty-five dollars each was not above their value. Is not this 

 an inducement, in a pecuniary point of view, to plant good 

 trees well, and on good ground, well located, and afterwards to 

 cultivate well ? 



Jonas A. Marshall, Chairman. 



Statement of John Brooks, Jr. 



My west orchard was set out in the spring of 1850, the trees 

 being two years from the bud ; the soil is a clay loam, with a 

 clay subsoil ; it contains 130 trees, twenty-five feet apart each 

 way ; the holes were dug eighteen inches deep, and from four 

 to five feet wide. There are fifteen varieties, viz. : 20 Bald- 

 wins, 10 Hubbardston Nonesuch, 10 Ladies' Sweet, 10 Lyscomb, 

 10 Mother, 10 Roxbury Russet, 10 Golden Russet, 10 Jewett 

 Sweet, 10 Danvers Sweet, 10 Fall apples, 5 Moore's Sweet, 5 

 Pear Russet, 5 Minister, 5 Golden Ball. The piece was broken 

 up in the fall of 1819. In 1850 we rajised a crop of potatoes 

 with no manure but plaster in the hill, and the next fall we put 

 two heaps of manure on the piece, containing ten loads each, 

 then spread and ploughed it in, in the spring, and sowed oats ; 

 and since then we have manured it light, and sown it with 

 turnips about the first of August. 



My east orchard was set out in the fall of 1848, the trees 

 being then two years from the bud. It contains 110 trees, 

 twenty-eight feet apart each way, with a peach tree between 

 every two, set in the spring of 1849, the holes being dug 

 eighteen inches deep and from four to five feet in diame- 

 ter. There are fourteen varieties, viz. : 25 Baldwins, 10 Golden 

 Ball, 10 Hubbardston Nonesuch, 10 Golden Russet, 10 Rox- 

 bury Russet, 5 Spice Sweet, 5 Sweet Russet, 5 Danvers 

 Winter Sweet, 5 Orange apple, 5 Winter, 5 Lyscomb, 5 Swaar, 

 5 Mother, 5 Crown. 



This orchard has been in grass ; it was sown to grass, and 

 has been kept so since it was laid down, three years before the 

 orchard was transplanted ; nothing of note has been done to 

 the trees since setting, until last fall, when I put five shovel- 



