100 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



early application of the knife. The following varieties consti- 

 tute the selection above referred to, viz. : — 



Baldwin, twenty; Northern Spy, six; R. I. Greening, six; 

 Golden Sweet, four ; Roxbury Russet, four ; Winter Pearmain, 

 four ; Pome Royal, three ; Congress, three ; Porter, three ; 

 Hubbardston Nonesuch, three ; Newtown Pippin, three ; Early 

 Sweet Bough, two ; Early Harvest, two ; Orange Pippin, two ; 

 Fall Pippin, two ; Summer Pearmain, two ; Maiden Blush, two ; 

 Sour Bough, two ; Yellow Gillyflower, two ; Moore's Sweeting, 

 two ; Late Golden Sweet, four ; Wine Apple, one ; Pennock's 

 Winter Red, one ; Blue Pearmain, one. Total, eighty -four. 



My collection of pear trees, contains the following varieties, 

 viz. : Bartlett, six ; Flemish Beauty, five ; Duchess D'Angou- 

 leme, four ; Virgalieu, three ; Jargonnelle, three ; Seckel, four ; 

 Louise Bon de Jersey, four ; Beurre Diel, two ; Bloodgood, one ; 

 Glout Morccau, one ; Yicar of Winkfield, one ; Passe Colmar, 

 one. Total, thirty-five. 



In the cultivation of the pear, I pursue the same method as 

 with the apple, with this important exception, a mixture of iron 

 filings should be incorporated with the manure used in the pear 

 orchard. I would caution all against the use of long or straw 

 manure around their trees in the fall, or in any manner provid- 

 ing material for the winter quarters of mice. 



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Sardis Gilletfs Statement. 



The apple orchard which I offer for premium, consists of one 

 hundred and one trees, viz. : fifty Baldwins, twenty-one Rhode 

 Island Greenings, fourteen Roxbury Russets, seven Newtown 

 Pippins, seven Fall Boughs, and the remainder assorted kinds, 

 which were set out in the spring of 1849. The land is on the 

 top of a hill, the highest land on my farm, and consists of a red 

 gravel ; the land was new, and liad a crop of rye on it the year 

 previous to the ]>lanting of the orchard ; it has been cultivated 

 with corn and potatoes every year except the past. I have 

 cleared up my wood-yard every fall, and put the chip manure 

 around the trees, which is all the manure it has had except in 



