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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Hubbardstoji Nonesiwh. 



No. 1, Grafted 1847, Yielded 35.^ bushels, 10 barrels market apples, 



2, " 1847, " 19 " b\ " " " 



3, " 1848, " 15i " 5 « " " 



4, " 18.50, " 8^ " 3 " •• " 



5, " 1851, «« 7^ " 2^ « " " 



Baldwin. 



No. 1, Grafted 1848, Yielded 18 bushels, 



2, " 1848, « 17 " 



3, " 1850, " 18^ «♦ 



No. 1, Grafted 1847, Yielded 15 



2, '< 1846, " 14 



3, " 1847, " 17i 



4, " 1847, " 14 



DoA'ER, October 25, 1855. 



Porter. 

 bushels. 



5i barrels market apples. 

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3 <i « (t 



4.i barrels market apples. 



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PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of Horace CoUamore. 



Some years since, the Trustees of the Plymouth County 

 Agricultural Society offered prospective premiums " for the 

 most extensive and valuable orchard of peach trees," payable 

 in 1855. As a competitor for these premiums, I will state, 

 that prior to 1847 I had met with very indifferent success in 

 the cultivation of peach trees, so universal and fatal were the 

 depredations of the borer. 



Having tried some experiments with ashes, (the remedy 

 confidently recommended in 1847-8,) I purchased some fifty 

 trees. I also purchased in Boston a peck of peach-stones, 

 which were carefully cracked, the meat taken out and planted, 

 and cultivated in the same manner as Indian corn ; the seed 

 germinated well, and supplied me with a sufficient number of 

 trees to transplant two other orchards, comprising in all two 

 hundred and seventy-five trees now in bearing condition, viz. : 

 one hundred and thirteen in my original orchard, in front of 

 my dwelling ; one hundred northerly of the same, and fifty- 

 seven on the hill back of the same. The soil on the first is a 

 sandy loam, in good condition ; the second is on a side hill 

 facing the west — a poor sandy soil ; the last, on the hill, is a 

 hard gravelly soil. The first few years we planted the land 

 between- the rows with corn, beans, &c., manuring with mud 

 compost and ashes. 



