ON FRUIT TREES. 61 



Twelve thousand pear trees, of one and two years growth from 

 the bud. The number of varieties exceed three hundred. 



Fourteen thousand apple trees, of one, two and three years growth 

 from the bud. Varieties, seventy. 



Three thousand peach tree, one years growth from the bud. Va- 

 rieties, eighty. 



Twelve hundred cherry trees, of one and two years growth from 

 the bud. Varieties, forty. 



One thousand plum trees, one and two years growth from the bud. 

 Varieties, thirty. 



My soil is generally a loam with a gravelly bottom. The trees 

 were all raised by me from the seed. 



Yours respectfully, 



CHARLES F. PUTNAM. 



Salem, September 28th, 1847. 



SAMUEL C. PITMAN'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Fruit Trees: 



Gentlemen, — Your attention hag been called more particularly 

 by me to examine my nursery as a whole — otherwise than any one 

 particular part or branch. 



I have been engaged in the nursery business the past five years, 

 but have not confined my labors to any particular sort or kind of fruit 

 or tree. I have now between four and five acres of land in nursery, 

 with about one hundred thousand trees and shrubs, consisting of some 

 twenty thousand apple trees, in their different stages from the bud 

 up to three years old ; some five thousand pear, ditto ; also, some 

 thousands of peach, plum, cherry and quince trees, with a large 

 number of the difi"erent varieties of forest and ornamental trees. 



The farm which I occupy being near the sea shore, I have found 

 great difficulty in getting trees from the interior, as well as those 

 from warmer latitudes, to live and grow with me — requiring some 

 three years (when they live) to get acclimated and give any en- 

 couragement of making decent trees. This difficulty induced me, 

 in the first instance, to grow my trees from the seed on my own farm 

 and hence my getting into the business. 



