82 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



John D. Moore s Statement. 



The orcliard I offer for premium contains two hundred apple 

 trees, seventy-two trees set in 1850, and one hundred and twen- 

 ty-eight in 1851. The trees were all raised by myself, and 

 were one and two years from the bud when set, and nearly all 

 Baldwins. 



The land was an old pasture, soil high, dry, and gravelly 

 loam, broken up at the time the trees were set, and has been 

 constantly cultivated with some hoed crop. Manure mostly 

 spread and ploughed in, and none ever applied directly to the 

 trees since setting. 



The trees were set in holes two feet deep, two rods apart, 

 and manured with two shovelfuls of weak compost, composed 

 of manure, bone dust, ashes and peat. I have never seen any 

 insects except caterpillars, and those we destroyed. 



Usually wash my trees with a weak solution of oil soap, but 

 these trees were never washed. 



Trim in June, but small limbs at any time when convenient ; 

 begin always to get a well-balanced head and a stocky tree with- 

 out ever tying to stakes. 



Concord, September 1, 1853. 



Benjamin Wellington's Statement. 



The orchard to which I wish to call your attention, consists 

 of one hundred and forty apple trees, one hundred and ten of 

 which were set in the spring of 1846, the remainder in 1849. 

 The soil in which they are set, is a deep yellow loam, situated 

 upon the eastern slope of a hill. They are set out in rows, 

 thirty-five feet apart each way, with peach trees between the 

 rows in one direction. The holes were dug about three feet 

 across, and eighteen inches iu depth, then filled nearly level 

 witli the surface soil, particular care being taken at the time of 

 setting, that the roots should not be covered more than their 

 original depth, and I have several times since spread from the 

 trees the extra soil which had accumulated about them by 

 the plough. The land had been ploughed and planted with 

 alternate crops of corn, potatoes, &c., with the exception of 



