1873.] REPORT ON APPLES. 35 



For best ten Koxbury Eussett 2 00 



For best ten Sheppard's Sweet, S. S. Foster 2 00 



For best ten Tallman's Sweet, ITewell Wood, of Millbury 2 00 



For best ten Sweet Apples of any variety, Mrs. A. M. New- 

 ell, for Spice Sweeting 2 00 



For best ten Williams' Early Ked, A. Foster, of Holden 2 00 



P'or best ten Twenty Ounce, no entry 2 00 



For best ten Washington Strawberry, Mrs. A. M. Newell .... 2 00 

 For best ten of any other sort, Eri Sanders, for American 



Beauty 2 00 



GRATUITIES. — 



To S. S. Foster, for collection of thirty-four varieties .3 00 



To Isaac Mills, for collection of twelve varieties SCO 



To O. Chaffin, for collection of twelve varieties 2 < 



To A. Foster, for collection of six varieties 2 00 



To C. White, for collection of six varieties 2 00 



To H. Marble, for collection of six varieties 2 00 



To William Howe, for single dish of ten Baldwins 1 00 



To J. A. Farley, for single dish of ten Hubbardston Nonesuch 1 00 



To C. Putnam, for single dish of ten Hubbardston Nonesuch. 1 00 



To S. G. Curtis, for single dish of ten Hubbardston Nonesuch 1 00 



To N. R. Hapgood, for single dish of ten Porters 1 00 



To Mrs. A. M. NeweU, for single dish of ten N. J. Pippins. . . 2 00 



To C. Morse, .Jr., for single dish of ten Trauscendant Crabs. . . 1 00 



The bearing year for grafted apples will again recur next year, but 

 former experiences warn us against basing great expectations solel}' on 

 this fact. Frosts, insects, drouths or other negative factors may again, as 

 they often have heretofore, either alone or in combination, produce a nega- 

 tive product. 



The Report of your Committee on Apples last year, attempting to ac- 

 count for the repeated failure of the apple crop in previous years, assigned 

 as the principal cause the frequent occuri-ence of alternate periods of cold 

 and warmth in Spring, whereby the bloom of the trees was first unduly 

 forced and then, though often most abundant, was rendered abortive by 

 late frosts. Discussing this topic, among other things the Report con- 

 tained a remark about the freezing of trees in Winter. Since publication 

 of the report my attention has been called to several articles in the Gar- 

 dener's Monthly, a Horticultural Magazine published at Philadelphia, and 

 more particularly to an editorial notice of the Transactions of this Society 

 for 1872, in the number for June, 1873, wherein the editor, after quoting 

 the remark above referred to, proceeds to criticise the same, maintaining 



