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Russets twenty-eight years ago, and I have been surprised 

 that in the past ten years there have not l)een ten bushels of 

 good, fine apples, and I would like to inquire if others in 

 this neighborhood have succeeded in raising Roxbury Rus- 

 sets with any success. If they have not, it will not be ad- 

 visable to set out Roxbury Russets in that part of the county. 



Mr. Wood. I do not know personally as to fruitgrowing 

 here, but the Roxbury Russet in the towns of Sherborn and 

 Holliston and some parts of Milford is probably the most 

 profitable apple they grow. It may lie it is owing to the 

 difference of locality. I have some two or three trees on 

 my own place to supply a local demand, but the Bakhvin is 

 the most desirable variety. 



Mr. Pratt. If you were going to recommend a man to 

 set out an orchard to-day for market purposes, would you 

 not recommend him to set out entirely the Baldwin apple ? 



Mr. Wood. In my paper I recommended the varieties I 

 would use in an orchard, but I would set out more Baldwins 

 than any other. 



Mr. CusHMAN. With me the Golden Russet has been a 

 good success, but the Roxbury Russet has never been a suc- 

 cess. The codling moth attacks them more than any other 

 apple I have. 



Mr. W^OOD. There is a new variety of Russet down in 

 Acton that is very promising, called the Fletcher Russet. It 

 was shown at the Bay State Fair in Boston. Mr. Augur 

 was there from Connecticut and was very much delighted 

 with it, and I think engaged scions at that time. Whether 

 he has grown it or not I do not know. It has been shown 

 by the originator, John Fletcher, and Mr. W. H. Teele, 

 either of whom I have no doubt will furnish you with scions. 

 It is larger than the Roxbury Russet, of handsome form and 

 good quality, and it will keep as well as the Roxbury Russet. 



Mr. Millard. I would like to ask as to whether it is 

 better to buy our trees at home or abroad. 



Mr. Draper. The trouble is not with the trees that we 

 buy from the travelling salesmen. The trouble is with the 

 way the business is conducted. If I wanted to buy nice 

 apple trees, if I could get the varieties I wanted, I would 

 buy them direct from Stephen Hoyt & Sons of Connecticut, 



