20 WORCESTER COUNTY HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. [1878. 



He had seen similar results where the canker worm did the removal of 

 the blossoms ; after three years the Baldwins bore half a crop every year. 

 Mr. Draper said apples demand only half the manure necessary for 

 pears. 



In answer to a question by Mr. S. C. Andrews, Mr. Merritield .said 

 leather ashes would be of value. 



Mr Geo. S. Coe, of Shrewsbury, said apples should be picked when 

 they show signs of maturity ; this will vary with ditferent seasons : one 

 season his picking was interrupted by frost and snow ; when the .snow 

 was gone he finished picking, put the apples in a pile in the cellar three 

 and a half feet deep, and two months after they were in admirable con- 

 dition for shipping. 



Mr. J. Frank Allen said Northern Spy, Spitzenbeig and Newtown Pip- 

 pins in his cellar this season, from the West, showed as severe worm 

 ravages as though grown here ; he thought the worms have "gone "West." 

 The two first named kept well, and are still in good condition. He thought 

 native apples have kept poorly. 



Mr. Sears thought city cellars too warm for apples ; in his own cellar 

 Roxbuiy llussets keep till April, and then they are in condition for 

 market without picking over. His own fruit has kept well this season. 



Mr. Draper said in full bearing years apples are so plenty that mnny 

 growers pick carelessly and the price goes down. If growers will lake 

 extra pains in such seasops they will get a satisfactory reward. 



Mr. Allen expressed a belief that apple culture about Worcester will 

 pay, and related instances of good success ; if the farmer takes care of 

 his trees apples are are as good a crop as he can grow. 



Mr. Harlow did not believe in setting trees in good tillage land, but 

 only a fiw faims have such land ; most land is just adajjted to orchard- 

 ing, but it is not fit for tillage. He thought the expense of an orchard 

 from tiie start will more than absorb the profits, even after they come 

 into bearing. 



Mr. Piene, of Millbury, said he thought apples a profitable crop ; even 

 last year, were it not for the hard limes, the crop would have paid. He 

 thought most apples are picked too green ; early picked apples are inferior 

 in color, fiavoi-, and in keeping quality ; fruit will keep best on the tree ; 

 this is true even of pears ; he did not believe in!] "odd "year" trees ; he 

 had seen sci(U!s from "odd year'' Baldwins which bear the even years, 

 and even the original trees have reverted to even vear bearing. 



