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statements getting into the papers that Mr. Cole had turned a rus- 

 set apple into a greening, nor do I wonder at it since I must say 

 the apples resemble greenings. To describe this tree is impossi- 

 ble. I have never seen such a wonder, bearing such fine fruit, 

 tender and juicy, and of matchless flavor. I think there is nearly 

 twenty bushels of apples on the tree, were they gathered to-day, 

 and whether to place the estimate at thirty or forty at harvest time, 

 I am at a loss, since the fruit swells out so from day to day as to 

 bewilder me. 



" Still more remarkable is the effect upon another tree which I 

 will endeavor to describe. Mr. Cole took one of his men a few 

 days after his great show on the 7th of July, and going into his or- 

 chard, picked out two trees well loaded with fruit. One was young, 

 eight years old. Mr. Cole tells me it was a Flemish beauty ; the 

 other was an old tree. I should think it one of the oldest trees of 

 a very old orchard, there being no older orchard, as I am told, in 

 town. The ground was cultivated as a garden about the young 

 tree, while the old one stood in the sod of years. About both trees 

 trenches were dug and finished under Mr. Cole's system. Overflows 

 were provided, and the ground broken and well manured. The apples 

 on the Flemish beauty were nearly half grown, and by the first of 

 September presented an appearance in marked contrast with those 

 on other early trees around it. The fruit grew rapidly, matured 

 early, and if finer fruit was ever produced, I never saw it. It is 

 the old tree, however, bearing a nameless apple, that presents at 

 this time a wonderful transformation. The apples were about the 

 size of thorn plums when the tree was trenched around. Mr. Cole 

 tells me that while the fruit growing on this tree is not the Lady- 

 apple, he, three years ago, gave them to his grand-children as such. 

 He also tells me that an ounce was the average weight of the apple 

 three years ago. There are now apples growing on the tree of 



