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same lot. Those strawberries, which were planted on perhaps 

 five-eighths of an acre, and of course did not cover that, be- 

 cause the vines occupied half of the ground, produced $400 ; 

 and fruit from these vines took the first premium for the six 

 best varieties in the Massachusetts Horticultural Show. Fifteen 

 years ago that land would not have brought ten dollars an acre. 

 What is the use of saying you cannot raise fruit ? You can 

 raise it without any trouble. You have only to go to work and 

 do it. 



Col. Wilder. My friend Capt. Moore and myself believe in 

 good cultivation, but I am afraid this audience will draw the 

 conclusion, from his remarks, that the poorer the soil, and the 

 less they manure, the better the crop will grow. 



Mr. Moore. I would not be understood that way. I should 

 have said, in regard to growing grapes, that the wood that pro- 

 duces good fruit is medium-sized, short-jointed and well-ripened. 

 That you cannot get, where you put on a great quantity of 

 manure, with the strong growing kinds. 



Col. Stone. I should think that land that would grow straw- 

 berries would grow grapes. 



Col. Wilder. The remarks of Dr. Loriug and Capt. Moore 

 both go to show that nothing can succeed permanently without 

 care and attention. The members of the Board who know 

 Capt. Moore, know him to be one of the best cultivators in the 

 State. He has been remarkably successful with his Concord 

 vines on his hill pasture, where scarcely anything else, according 

 to his own account, (and I have no doubt he is correct,) would 

 grow. That is an instance showing what the vigor and hardi- 

 ness of a seedling grape, raised on our own soil, has done and 

 can do. I wish that every gentleman in this assembly who has 

 ever cultivated any fruit, or ever intends to, had the same feel- 

 ing in reference to the matter as Capt. Moore, and would say, 

 " We can have peaches, and will have them." But I will say 

 that I have drawn my conclusion that the time for peach culture 

 in Massachusetts has passed forever, from the experience of the 

 last forty years. Almost every year I have planted some 

 peaches, believing that now and then I should have a good crop, 

 but I have not got a crop six years out of the forty. I think it 

 arises from the fact that our forests are cleared off. The peach 

 will not stand this cold, bleak climate, these fierce, dry winds, 



