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vioiis ; and it may be well to offer inducements to careful, ob- 

 serving, intelligent fruit growers, to discover the causes and as- 

 certain the remedies of imperfection in fruits. 



Our attention has been called, this year, to the fact that ap- 

 ples, in considerable quantities have been transported from the 

 interior of Maine, in some cases, from places many miles from 

 railroad or water communication, to the city of Boston. These 

 apples, we understand, have been taken at prices fully satisfac- 

 tory to the grower ; and an instance has been communicated 

 to us, in which the owner of an orchard has this year received 

 more for his fruit, than he paid for the orchard a few years 

 since. 



Apple growers in more northern regions, have the advantage 

 of us at present, in the fairness of their fruit ; this may not long 

 continue ; as, with the extent of cultivation, the difficulties are 

 apt to increase. 



If we can ascertain the remedies for the various causes of 

 imperfection in our fruits, we shall probably find our climate 

 and soil as well adapted to the raising of most of the staple 

 fruits in perfection, as any in this favored country ; and interest 

 will induce us to furnish not only a sufficiency for our own 

 community, but largely for exportation. 



The committee were disappointed, in not having opportunity 

 officially, to look over more of the orchards of Essex county ; 

 but one orchard, that of Daniel Adams, of Newbury, being 

 offered for examination, to whom they award the first premium 

 on apple orchards. 



This orchard the committee examined on the 26th of Sep- 

 tember, and were much gratified with its appearance. The 

 arrangement was good ; the trees in a healthy and flourishing 

 state, of vigorous growth, and were creditable to the cultivator, 

 whose statement gives, in a somewhat particular manner, his 

 treatment of the orchard throughout. 



JOSIAH LITTLE, Chairman. 



