84 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Edward Kendall, of Cambridgeport, exhibited superb 

 specimens of Dix, Doyenne Cornice, and Swan's Orange, and 

 John N. Merriam, of Cambridgeport, also showed very fine 

 pears and apples, but too late to compete for the premium, as 

 they did not reach the exhibition until afternoon. 



The Committee regrets this, and also that it had no gratuities 

 placed at its disposal. It can only express its obligations to 

 the gentlemen for aiding the exhibition with their fine specimens. 



Warren Heustis, Belmont, says his pears are grown on a 

 good loam, with clay bottom ; uses hog manure ; trees six feet 

 apart ; thinks they should be at least twelve feet apart ; trees 

 on quince root, but have made roots from the pear, and are 

 likely to become standard trees. 



Paul Harris, Lincoln, says his trees are standards on a light, 

 sandy loam ; cropped with roots ; manured with twenty-five 

 loads compost to the acre, and ten quarts of ashes to each tree. 



Davis & Bates, Cambridgeport, grow on a gravelly soil ; use 

 stable manure fall and spring ; never allow any weeds ; think 

 good cultivation the main secret of success. 



Jacob Eaton, Cambridgeport, grows on a black, marshy soil ; 

 top-dresses in autumn with horse manure. 



Milton C. Walker, Lincoln, top-dresses in autumn with 

 meadow mud and bone dust. 



Edwin Wheeler, Concord, plants ten by seventeen feet ; 

 manures annually ; crops with roots ; soil heavy. 



A. C. Collier, Concord : soil, light, sandy loam ; manures in 

 spring with night-soil. 



J. R. Poor, Somerville : soil, clay loam well trenched and 

 manured ; keeps the fruit in a dark, dry and cool room. 



George S. Paine, Concord : strong, moist soil, under-drained 

 and worked ten inches deep ; top-dresses annually with a 

 compost of stable manure and meadow mud. 



Thomas F. Hunt, Concord : trees on the quince root ; 

 trenches one and one-half feet ; top-dresses yearly with stable 

 manure. 



For the Committee, 



E. W. Bull, Chairman. 



