REPORTS, 



FOR THE EXHIBITION OF 18S2. 



Report on Apples, 



The Committee on Apples, having faithfully attended to the duty 

 assigned them, beg leave to present the following report : 



The show of apples for the exhibition of 1852, has been superior 

 in many respects to that of any former year. A gradual but bteady 

 improvement has been going on in this branch of horticulture, since 

 the first germ of our now flourishing society was started in the midst 

 of us. This is shown by the great increase of new and valuable 

 varieties, presented from year to year ; by the more general culture of 

 some of the best varieties but lately introduced ; and, also, by the 

 improved culture of the old standard fiuits, which have so long 

 stood at the head of our list. 



The Roxbury Russett, the Greening, and the Baldwin, do not 

 seem now, to be the same fruits they were years ago. Better cul- 

 ture has, if we may so speak, developed them, and greatly 

 improved their bearing qualities, their form, their size, and their 

 flavor. Instead of enjoying the enviable name of engrafted fruit, 

 and the only engrafted fruit of the orchard, improved culture has 

 now forced them to admit into their hallowed society, the Graven- 

 stein, the Mother, the Swaar, the Esopus Spitzenberg, and a mighty 

 host of others, which time and space will not permit us to enu- 

 merate. 



Improved culture is also shijwn m the acclimation (if we may so 



