124 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Pub. Doc. 



Mr. Jacob Manning (of Reading) . No use to try to raise 

 them around Boston. When we came to import the Mont- 

 gannet we found we had some apricots that would give us 

 fruit, and it is as beautiful fruit as you ever saw and is free 

 and exempt from insect life, more so than our plums. The 

 Shense apricot, which was imported from Japan, I think, is 

 the finest fruit in the shape of an apricot that I ever put into 

 my mouth. It has been fruited only three or four years. 

 Mr. Maxwell and myself imported the Montgannet. It has 

 never been disseminated to any great extent. It is worth 

 a trial. 



Question. What do you think of the Russian variety? 



Mr. Willard. I do not think it is worth anything. 

 Don't you be humbugged by any man who attempts to sell 

 you any of those trees. 



Mr. Manning. Twenty years ago, wherever Thomas 

 Meehan saw a rising on the bark of the black-knot, he 

 painted it over with kerosene oil. 



Mr. Willard. I have taken a hair brush and kerosene 

 and treated them. I can do it with safety, but I cannot 

 hire a man who can do it. I have used linseed oil in the 

 same way. 



Mr. Underwood (of Mt. Tom). The apple which was 

 recommended here is something new to me. I would like 

 to inquire if the Sutton Beauty will keep as well as the 

 Baldwin. 



Mr. Willard. Nearly as well, and sometimes better. 

 The Baldwin after the first of February is apt to lose, in a 

 measure, its good qualities, and become mealy at the core. 

 The Sutton Beauty is a mild, sub-acid apple. It originated 

 in this State. I should rather have a Greening for pies. 



Mr. Lyman. While at the World's Fair I became very 

 much interested in an apple that I expected before this time 

 would be very popular. It was the Wealthy apple. 



Mr. Willard. The Wealthy apple had its origin in Min- 

 nesota. It was sent out as a winter apple, when in fact it is 

 an early fall apple. It is a great producer, and, unless 

 thinned on the tree, you do not get a nice apple. The Sep- 

 tember winds are very apt to put them all on the ground, 

 hence it has not become a popular apple. 



