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Other varieties cultivated are the Bahlwin, — which is getting 

 out of favor, because some years it does not color up, — the 

 Rhode Island Greening, the Alexander and the Yellow Bell- 

 flower, which is better known there under the synonym of the 

 Bishop's Pippin. 



It is without doubt largely due to the skill with which the 

 Province apples are packed, that they command such prices in 

 the foreign market. Great attention has been paid to packing 

 and transportation. 



The Province of Nova Scotia some twenty-five years ago, 

 boasted of a flourishing Agricultural Society. Sometime in the 

 early seventies a Fruit Growers Association was organized, 

 having its headquarters in VVolfville, in the Annapolis Valley. 

 This Association has usurped the place of the Agricultural 

 Society, and the latter has become, in the valley at least, practi- 

 cally defunct. The Fruit Growers Association is the live 

 Society, and it has accomplished a great work, not only in 

 exciting an interest in fruit culture, but by means of discussions, 

 lectures, and papers, in teaching the best methods of culture. 

 An outgrowth of the Fruit Growers Association is a Horticul- 

 tural School. An endowment or appropriation has been made 

 for the purpose by the Dominion Government. A large tract 

 of land has been leased for a term of thirty years for experi- 

 mental purposes. A corps of professors and instructors have 

 been engaged, and during the coming year a building is to be 

 erected. 



The moral of what I have been saying is, that granted a good 

 soil, and proper care and attention, good apples can be grown; 

 and the application of this moral we can take home to ourselves. 



Worcester County lies in that portion of Eastern Massachusetts 

 noted for the fine flavor and qualities of its fruits ; and especially 

 in the flavor of the apple, to no other section of the country or 

 the world does Eastern Massachusetts yield the palm. No 

 other section of the world of the same size has originated more 

 apples in general favor for cultivation than Worcester County. 

 And if our farmers and orchardists woukl devote to apple cul- 

 ture the same energy and attention they give to market garden- 



