82 ON FRUIT TREES. 



If we can ascertain the remedies for the various causes of imper- 

 fection in our fruits, we shall probably find our climate and soil as 

 well adapted to the raising of most of the staple fruits in perfection 

 as any in this favored country ; and interest will induce us to furnish 

 not only a sufficiency for our own community, but largely for expor- 

 tiation. 



The Committee were disappointed in not having opportunity offic- 

 ally to look over more of the orchards of Essex county ; but one or- 

 chard, that of Daniel Adams of Newbury, being offered for exam- 

 ination. 



This orchard the Committee examined on the 26th of September, 

 and were much gratified with its appearance. The arrangement was 

 good ; the trees in a healthy and flourishing state, of vigorous growth 

 and were creditable to the cultivator, whose statement gives in a 

 somewhat particular manner his treatment of the orchard through- 

 out. 



The Committee recommend that the first premium on apple or- 

 ehards be given- to Daniel Adams. 



JOSIAfl LITTLE, 1 

 GEORGE W. GAGE, j 

 GEORGE L. DAVIS, i Committee. 

 GEORGE THURLOW, | 

 MOSES FRENCH, J 



Salem, Nov. 19, 1849. 



DANIEL ADAMS-S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Fruit Trees : 



Gentlemen, — I offer for the Society's premium, my apple or- 

 ehardjSet out since 1845, and containing 204 trees, on about two acres. 

 The land is a gravelly loam and somewhat rocky, a small part mixed 

 with clay, and inclining to the northeast, and has been improved as 

 a field for some 60 years or more. 



The field, previous to the year 1845, had been in grass about five 

 years. In the spring of that year I broke up one acre and manured 

 in the hill with about six cords of common barnyard manure, and 

 planted with corn, ajid obtained a fair crop. 



