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of removal and the effect of winter. Nurserymen transplant in 

 the fall in order to save time in the spring, when trade is most 

 active ; but they are also familiar with the habits of trees, and 

 aim to supply favorable circumstances as far as possible, to offset 

 those that are unfavorable. 



Apple trees should bear half a bushel of fruit on the fourth year 

 from setting in the orchard. The eighth year from setting, an 

 orchard at New Canaan bore two barrels of apples per tree. 

 Experience has proved that it is feeding and care that produces 

 apples. 



Mr. Hoyt advised all amateurs to let cherry grafting alone. 

 When it is to be tried it should be done just as the frost is coming 

 out of the ground, and for other fruits before the new leaves are 

 out too far on the trees so treated. Yet apples can be grafted up 

 to June. 



It would be far better to cultivate the whole area of an orchard, 

 than a circle around each tree. If you wish to improve the pro- 

 duct of a tree by grafting or by more judicious and thorough 

 culture, always bear in mind the fact, that by no treatment, how- 

 ever excellent, can you make a young tree out of an old one. 



A vote of thanks to Mr. Hoyt for his very interesting, 

 instructive, and practical lecture, was unanimously passed. 



The announcement for the next Saturday was a paper upon 

 '' Hardy Grapes," by Dr. Jabez Fisher of Fitchburg. 



MEETING FOR DISCUSSION. 



Saturday, January 27, 1894. 

 A Meeting for Discussion was holden today at eleven o'clock, 

 the President, Nathaniel T. Kidder, in the chair. 



The following paper was read by the author : 

 Hardy Grapes. 



By Jabez Fisher, M. D., Fitchburg. 



It is now forty years since I made my first purchase of grape 

 vines, which included one vine of the Concord, then for the first 

 time offered for sale. Two years later, having in the meantime 



