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bearing, but has a more extensive collection of varieties that 

 have not yet borne in sufficient quantity to judge of their 

 comparative merits. He also makes peaches a specialty, and 

 says he has not failed of a crop for fifteen years, although 

 there have been a few seasons when the yield v.'as not more 

 than one-half or one-third of a full one. He places the early 

 and late Crawford, and Barnard, at the head. Finds yellow 

 peaches sought after v/hen the white-fleshed are a drug. Of 

 the latter, the Large Early York, Stump the World, and 

 Crockett's White, are favorites, — the latter was brought from 

 New Jersey and matures the latest of the three. He has also 

 paid some attention to both standard and dwarf pears. Among 

 the latter, he says, the Louise Bonne de Jersey has paid twice 

 as much as any other. 



THE BALDWIN. 



Mr. Thompson suggested that the difference in the color of 

 the Baldwins upon the table was occasioned by a difference in 

 soil. 



Mr. Husted said the distinction was important. A variation 

 in soil produces not only a diflerence in color, but also a cor- 

 responding variation in size, quality, and flavor. The Baldwin 

 is one of the peculiar varieties which are materially changed 

 by the variations of soil. There are low places that are rich 

 and black, very cold in winter and very hot in summer ; this 

 soil produces a very inferior Baldwin. This apple does best on 

 elevated situations, where the temperature is mostly uniform. 

 He had watched the Baldwin for years in this State. There 

 was an unusual variety of soil in Michigan, and the Baldwin 

 succeeds remarkably well in some places, while in others it has 

 been discarded. Hence a 'New England man coming here is 

 often disappointed in the Baldwin. 



Mr. Holt said the Baldwin did well with him until the 

 severe winter of '56-'57, when they were all killed, though 

 other varieties survived. Since then he had had no luck in 

 raising young trees, but had done well in grafting the Baldwin 



