72 REPORT OF THE SECRETARY OF THE 



Best bearing peach orchard — First premium, Chas. E. Soule ; 

 second premium, Geo. Seagrove. 



Best four-year-old peach orchard — First premium, Thomas 

 Petty. 



Best three-year-old peach orchard — First premium, Walter 

 G. Sinclair; second premium, Ambrose L. Soule. 



Best two-year-old peach orchard — First premium, E. L. 

 Tread way; second premium, Thomas Petty. 



Best one-year-old peach orchard — First premium, Frank 

 Hall ; second premium, Orrin Douglass. 



Best bearing vineyard — First premium, Messrs. Cutler & 

 Savidge ; second premium, Thomas Petty. 



Best five-year-old vineyard — First premium, Jas.B. Soule; 

 second premium, A. L. Soule. 



Best four-year-old vineyard — First premium, Thos. Petty. 



Best three-year-old vineyard — First premium, Thos. Petty. 



Best two-year-old vineyard — First premium, Chas. E. Soule. 



Best one-year-old vineyard — First premium, Timothy Hall ; 

 second premium, Job Sessions. 



REMARK8. 



As is customary in a report of this character, your commit- 

 tee also submit remarks in reference to the several orchards 

 and vineyards entered for competition, some of which will 

 indicate the reasons which actuated the committee in recom- 

 mending the above awards. 



Mr. James B. Soule's three-year-old apple orchard has made 

 good promising limbs. Mr. Soule's system of pruning encour- 

 .ageg several good branches, which are led out in different 

 •directions so as to form a well balanced tree. We prefer this 

 method to heading in short, and producing numerous shoots. 



Mr. Chas. E. Soule's apple orchard of 350 trees, planted in 



1867. These trees, which have not been cut back, but simply 



thinned out, have made good limbs, and are doing finely^ 



'Those which have been headed in, makvj bushy growth of 



