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remain until it becomes cold, freezing weather, when they are transferred 

 to a cool and dry cellar, placing the barrels on their sides, and keeping the 

 cellar dark. 



As a source of income, we believe that the apple can now be relied upon 

 either for our own markets, or for exportation ; the facilities of communica- 

 tion by steamboats and railroads opening new markets for this wholesome 

 fruit, while the prices obtained for the finest sorts have not diminished but 

 advanced, should incite our farmers to plant out orchards of the apple. Mr. 

 Pell, of Esopus, on the Hudson river, who has an orchard of two thousand, 

 bearing Newtown Pippen apples, gathered from the trees, in one season, 

 seventeen hundred barrels of fruit, part of which were sold in New York 

 for four, and others in London for nine, dollars per barrel. 



In making a selection of apples, we should, as far as is practicable, en- 

 deavor to fix upon those which are found to suit our soil ; we have hereto- 

 fore remarked that many kinds which are good bearers when grown in 

 strong and moist soils, — for example, the Pickman Pippen, Williams's Fa- 

 vorite, Blue Pearmain, Roxbury Russet, and Ribstone Pippen, — are the re- 

 verse of this upon our own soil, which is of a light, sandy loam ; while 

 the Baldwin, llubbardston Nonsuch, Yellow Bell-flower, Danvers Winter 

 Sweet, Minister, and Fall Harvey, grow and bear well upon our grounds. 

 The Baldwin and Hubbardston Nonsuch seem to be at home in almost every 

 variety of soils. 



In a Report which was made to this society some years since, we re- 

 marked that apples, originating on any given soil, will be generally better 

 than most of those which are introduced into it ; citing the Newtown Pip- 

 pen, and Pennock's Red Winter, which are first rate at the south where 

 they originated, but, when fruited in this locality, are found inferior to the 

 Hubbardston Nonsuch, Baldwin, and some others. A close observer at 

 the West, (Rev. Mr. Beecher,) has recently observed " that the soil and 

 climate so modify the flavor and other qualities of the apple, that there 

 is reason for believing that an apple originating on any given soil will 

 be better than many which are introduced into it, for, though the apple 

 is raised in almost every soil, yet it is probable that each variety affects 

 a particular one ; thus I perceive the most popular apples of New Eng- 

 land are natives; this, to a considerable extent, is true of the West." 



Among the best varieties of apples in Massachusetts are the "Minis- 

 ter," and the " Mother;" they are of recent origin, the first-named was 

 raised in Rowley, and is a winter fruit, combining great beauly, produc- 

 tiveness, large size, fine flavor, and late keeping properties. The other is 

 a late fall apple of highest order ; it originated in Bolton, and is a large 

 oblong red fruit of excellent flavor, and a good bearer. No better evi- 

 dence can be given of the congeniality of the soil of our state for the 

 apple than the natural production of such fruit as the Baldwin, Minister, 

 Hubbardston Nonsuch, Mother, Roxbuiy Russet, Danvers Winter Sweet, 

 Aunt Hannah, and the Ben of Reading. — pp. 124-126. 



