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but had on it a very few nice red apples. From this 

 tree he cut scions and from it sprang the Baldwin 

 apple." 



From the farm of the Hon. John Cummings, of 

 Woburn, were sent the present year two thousand 

 barrels of apples to Liverpool, most of which were 

 Baldwins ; large quantities of fruits and vegetables for 

 the market were also raised there, among which may 

 be named seventy-five thousand beautiful heads of the 

 cauliflower, produced in one year. 



From Concord comes some of the finest roses, straw- 

 berries, grapes, and vegetables, which grace our exhi- 

 bitions ; but, if it had produced nothing else but the 

 Concord grape, its name, and that of Mr. Ephraim W. 

 Bull, its originator, would have been remembered with 

 gratitude. Her soil, once fertilized by the blood of her 

 sous, yields rich rewards for protecting and making 

 it more and more worthy of protection, and her name 

 will ever be memorable in history as the spot where 

 the British soldiery were repulsed and driven back, on 

 the nineteenth of April, 1775. 



One of the most conspicuous and extensive places 

 as regards horticultural improvement and landscape 

 gardening, and interesting also for its historic associa- 

 tions, is that of the Hon. Francis B. Hayes, at Lex- 

 ington, president of the Massachusetts Horticultural 

 Society. It is only nineteen years since he purchased 

 the estate of about thirteen acres on which his house 

 now stands. But the estate now embraces in one com- 

 pact body, near the centre of the town, and yet retired, 

 between four and five hundred acres of hill and dale, 

 forest, beautiful landscape pasture and arable fields 

 seldom surpassed in New England. A portion of this 

 estate belonged to the Rev. John Hancock, who was 

 the grandfather of the patriot of the same name. An 



