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pear, indeed, very astringent, and an exceedingly shy bearer. 

 " Where is your residence ? " " I am about twenty miles from 

 the gentleman who has just spoken, on Long Island, and both 

 of us within about the same distance from the sea-shore." 



It seems to me that the apple is decidedly the fruit for the 

 farm, and not the pear. There is one very striking thing about 

 all apples, that I noticed a great many years ago, and called 

 attention to, in an article that I published — that apples grown 

 on a given soil, or in a given region of country, were almost 

 invariably, better than apples brought from abroad. I named 

 at the time the Baldwin, the Minister, the Hubbardston None- 

 such, the Roxbury Russet, &c. I then contrasted them with the 

 Newtown Pippin, which I suppose to be the best apple the country 

 produces ; but it must be grown on Long Island. I know a 

 tree in this city which is a great bearer, but the owner does not 

 consider it to be so valuable as another tree, the Hubbardston 

 Nonesuch, which stands near it. 



Then, with regard to the choice of apples, I think we had 

 better take apples that are grown in our region. If we look 

 over the list of apples, we shall find that almost all the finest 

 apples have originated on our soil. Imported apples do not do 

 well here. Southern apples do not do well at the North, nor do 

 Northern apples do well at the South. Mr. Van Buren, of 

 Georgia, says he has got about seventy varieties of Southern 

 apples, and they all do well ; and he says, " I have in my list 

 the Newtown Pippin, the Foundling, the Hubbardston," — and he 

 names others of our New England apples — " and I don't think 

 I have had a bushel on one tree for the last five years." "We 

 must have apples that are grown on our soil. Henry Ward 

 Beecher says that is true of the West ; that the best apples in 

 Indiana, where he was, originated on the Mississippi, or at the 

 West ; and I think that is the case. 



The gentleman (Mr. Clement) did not speak very well of the 

 Lyscom apple. That apple, from the very circumstance of its 

 having so many synonyms, must be a good apple. Here we 

 call it Osgood's Favorite ; up in Worcester County, you find it 

 called Matthew's Striped ; down in Marblchead it is, I am told, 

 called the Nonpareil. I think these are all the Lyscom, raised 

 in Southborough, Massachusetts. There are no apples that we 

 can raise here so profitably as the Minister, the Baldwin, the 



