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month of October, 1882, a deep and model trench was sunk imme- 

 diately above this June russet apple tree. The spring succeeding, 

 the wealth of blossoms on this tree was surprising. The blossoms 

 were of a size attracting attention of even the children, being 

 nearly twice the size of the ordinary apple blossom. The fruit 

 developed rapidly, and by the first of August the apples had 

 reached a growth larger than at any time before when the fruit 

 was harvested. Such was the weight of the fruit as to necessitate 

 the propping of nearly every limb. When the apples ripened, com- 

 plete transformation was discovered. Little, if any russet coating 

 was to be seen, the fruit having dropped its color and coating, and 

 some of the better specimens would have passed for greenings. 



When Mr. J. F. Langworthy visited us, we presented him with 

 specimens of plums of the size of an ordinary hen's egg, picked in 

 his presence from a tree which, before our system was adopted, had 

 never given them larger than a small pullet's egg. Specimens of 

 these plums were also sent the same year, (1883), to Hon. R. E. 

 Fenton, ex-Governor of our State, and exhibited in New York to 

 Hon H. J. Jewett, President of the N. Y. Lake Erie and Western 

 Kailroad Company, and to Alfred Henderson, son of Mr. Peter 

 Henderson, and were pronounced by all to be the finest specimens 

 they had ever seen. 



While Deacon B. F. Langworthy was looking over our grounds, 

 we plucked heads of timothy of second cutting, eight inches in 

 length, fully seeded, and subsequently cut others, a third crop avera- 

 ging six inches. As near as we can now recollect, the first of these 

 cuttings was about the middle of June, the second the last of July, 

 and the third about the middle of September. In the first cutting 

 the heads averaged nine inches, and in some instances reached ten, 

 and in one, at least, eleven inches in length and of most surprising 

 weight. Specimens of the Kittatinny blackberry were also pre- 



