64 WOBCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1881. 



derive an easier or better livelihood from the ensilage of Maize, 

 or a pedigree in direct descent from Eupidee or Maximum ? 

 Compute the proper number of trees to the acre* and you have 

 the sum to answer for itself. 



And, with the stern compulsion of necessity constraining us 

 have we, — as Horticulturists, — any alternative? Is it not already 

 manifest that a market exists for the entire produce of our or- 

 chards, on condition only that we will earn and merit coniidence ? 

 For your inspection at leisure, and that you may duly appreciate 

 the opportunity which the orchardists of' Worcester County may 

 take at the flood and follow on to fortune, 1 have collated the sub- 

 joined tables from the London Garden ; asking you to mark 

 especially the absence of certain varieties, from these tables, like 

 the Huhbardston Nonesuch for example, that might seem to be 

 of the first value for commercial purposes ; and the undue pre- 

 valence of others to which here, in Worcester County, we attach 

 little or no value : 



Apples — Exportation during nine one- half (9^) months, from 

 August 1, 1880, to May 14, 1881. 



From New York barrels 599,200 



" Boston " 510,:-i00 



" Philadelphia " 9,872 



" Montreal " 145,276 



" Halifax " 24,250 



« Portland " 39,908 



" Annapolis " 20,000 



1,348,806 



Between the 15th and 22d days of December, A. D. 1880, 

 there arrived at Liverpool 27,785 barrels of apples. To the mid- 

 dle of May, A. D. 1881, there had been received, at that port, 

 the enormous aggregate of 692,550 barrels against 240,550 in 

 the year 1880. Now you will be curious to know what return 

 they made after travelling so far. The prices current for dif- 

 ferent varieties, January 1st, A. D. 1881, were thus stated : 



*At a distance of thirty (30) feet between the trees there could be planted : 

 Imperial acre, 48 ; Scottish acre, 60 j Irish acre, 79 trees. 



