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length (depending on the length of the tobacco) and two and a 

 half feet square, measuring the outside. Tliey should be made 

 of inch boards, and planed on the outside. 



Press from three hundred and seventy-five, to four hundred 

 pounds into each case, where it goes through a sweat, and in 

 about one year after it is cased is in a suitable condition forjthe 

 manufacturer to work, who uses it mostly in making cigars. 



Paoli Lathrop. 

 Levi Stockbridge. 



FRUIT CULTURE. 



At a meeting of the State Board of Agriculture, on the 19th 

 of February, 1861, a committee was appointed to prepare a 

 Catalogue of Fruits^ adapted to the Commonwealth of Massa- 

 chusetts, and with special reference to Nomenclature. That 

 committee was continued last year, on account of the failure 

 of many kinds of fruits in 1861, and at the annual meeting in 

 January, 1863, submitted the following Report : — 



In accordance with the requisition of this Board, your com- 

 mittee submit the following catalogue of fruits, which they 

 recommend as being well adapted to cultivation in the State of 

 Massachusetts. 



While it has been difficult to acquire information in regard 

 to all the varieties of fruit which prosper in the different dis- 

 tricts of the Commonwealth, sufficient knowledge has been 

 obtained to warrant the belief that most, if not all of those 

 named, possess characteristics which will render them per- 

 manently wseful. 



This catalogue is not presented as being complete or perfect, 

 but simply as a beginning or basis to whicli future additions 

 andimprovements maybe made. Neither is it deemed expedi- 

 ent to elaborate it beyond the immediate and practical benefit 

 which may inure to our farmers by the cultivation of fruits. 



Fruit culture has become an important appendage to the 

 farm, and although the temperature and soils of New England 

 have not been considered so propitious as some other portions 

 of our country, yet it is believed, by your committee, that with 

 judicious cultivation tliere are few if any of our States where 

 success is more certain, or the result more profitable than in 



