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they are very healthy. The last season, some of my Bartlett 

 pear trees produced from twenty to thirty pears, of the finest size, 

 and made new wood, from one and a half to three and a half 

 feet. The new wood through the whole orchard was from 

 one to five feet. 



I have never washed my trees, yet they look fresh and 

 healthy. I am satisfied, however, that it is well to do so, and 

 intend to use whale oil soap. I have set out seventy-five vari- 

 eties of apple trees, in all three hundred and eleven trees ; 

 eighty-eight varieties of pear trees, in all, one hundred and 

 ninety-five trees ; seventy cherry trees, of twenty-two varie- 

 ties; one hundred and ten peach trees, of thirty varieties ; six 

 black mulberry trees ; three nectarines, one apricot, ten plum, 

 and twenty large orange quince trees. Total, seven hundred 

 and twenty-six trees, and two hundred and twenty-five vari- 

 eties. 



Seekonk, March I3th, 1850. 



