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I am inclined to think the Ben Davis is about as good property as 

 you can have for apples at the present time, either for export or for 

 local trade. 



Question. Another question was offered and stated by the chair 

 as follows : The sum of the question is, how the Baldwin tree 

 should be propagated, the question arising from the fact that the 

 fruit growers generally concede that the Baldwin is not fully suc- 

 cessful as grown in the nursery. 



Mr. Atherton. Last summer, I called at Mr. George Bowman's 

 place, of the firm of Bowman Brothers, in Sidney. He very kindly 

 took me through his different orchards and nurseries. He had a 

 number of rows of ingrafted Baldwin trees and they were very fine 

 trees indeed. Some years before, I said, ''Mr. Bowman, they say 

 they cannot successfully raise Baldwin trees here in Maine," and I 

 urged him to test the matter. And he put out in one year, I know, 

 a thousand trees, and I think he has now about ten thousand, and I 

 don't know but more, of young Baldwin trees, and he is ingrafting 

 them every year, and he has a good many now, in his nursery of 

 Baldwins ingrafted. 



Mr. Gilbert. Mr. Bowman told me this winter while looking 

 over his trees that he was not propagating Baldwins in the nursery. 



Mr. Blossom. This summer I had five barrels of Wealthies. All 

 the fault I can find with the Wealthy is that it drops quite badly 

 with me. That may not prove to be the case with others. It has 

 borne well with me for the past two years and the apple is fine in 

 every respect. 



Sec. Gilbert. I think the falling off" is a characteristic that holds 

 good wherever it has been fruited in the State. 



Mr. Augur. I think it should be borne in mind that the Wealthy 

 is not a late keeping apple. In southern New England I think it is 

 but little more than a fall apple or early winter, hardly keeping as 

 long as the Hubbardston. 



Sec. Gilbert. Allow me to add, in this connection, having had 

 something of an opportunity for observation, and always keeping the 

 matter in mind, that I think we can lay it down as a fact that has 

 been proved, that the Wealthy in season is but very little, if any, 

 later than the Fameuse, being here a November apple. Of course 

 grown in the northern part of the State it becomes a winter apple. 



