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ry, with the exception of one hundred and seventy-five, which 

 were as good as any in my nursery at that time. The ground 

 has been ploughed and planted each year. The other orchard 

 contains eighty trees, set out in tlie fall of 1844 ; two shovels 

 full of manure was applied to each tree in the fall. 



The follow.'ng are the kinds of fruit : — For winter — North- 

 ern Spy, Lady Sweeting, Baldwin, Greening, Roxbury Rus- 

 sett, Danvers Winter Sweet. For fall — Hubbardston Nonsuch, 

 Fall Harvey, Kilham Hill, Gravenstein, Porter, Aunt Han- 

 nah, Minister, Yellow Bellflower, Luscomb, Alexander, Dutch 

 Codlin, Maiden's Blush, — with several other kinds of new fruit, 

 which I have not fairly tested. 



Topsfield, Oct. 9, 1850. 



MOSES PETTINGIL'S STATEMENT. 



I offer for the Society's premium, my orchard of Pear trees, 

 Vv^hich consists of thirty-six trees, set in the spring of 1846. 

 The land on which they stand is a strong, dark loam, with a 

 clayey sub soil. It had been cultivated for two years, and was 

 in a good state for transplanting. The varieties are as follows: 

 Seckel, Beurre Bosc, Winter Nelis, St. Ghislain, Summer Franc 

 Real, Golden Beurre of Bilboa, Pope's Russet, Dearborn's Seed- 

 ling, and Pound Pear. In the spring of 1846 I dug the holes 

 for the trees, twenty-five by thirty feet apart. I made them 

 eighteen inches in depth, and four feet broad, and mixed with 

 the soil some manure to each hole. I then set out the trees ; 

 they all lived, and made wood the first year from four to twelve 

 inches. In the autumn of 1846, '47 and 48, 1 put around them 

 lalf a bushel of barn manure to each tree, and in 1849 I ma- 

 nured with muscle mud, and in the spring of each year I dug 

 the manure into the ground. The trees have made good 

 growth, and the present season from twelve to forty inches. 



In 1846 I planted the land with a peach nursery, and raised 

 a good crop of trees that I have sold, leaving seventy as stand- 

 ards, from which I have received a good crop of fruit the past 



