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county ; is in eating from November to February, and alto- 

 gether deserving of cultivation. 



Red Pumpkin Siveeting-. A Connecticut seedling, introduced 

 by Mr. Ramsdell, of Thompson, and esteemed for the large 

 crops it bears, as well as for its saccharine flavor. The tree 

 is a vigorous grower, with very upright shoots, and comes 

 early into bearing, and is one of the best winter sweet apples 

 we possess ; in season, from October to February. 



Large Yelloiv Siveet Bough. We consider this to be the 

 best early sweet apple of our county ; it is of large size, bears 

 annually medium crops. The tree is not a great grower, but 

 healthy and thrifty. In the eastern part of New Hampshire, 

 this fruit is called Early Washington. Coming early in the 

 summer, it is a saleable apple in the markets. 



St. Laivrence. This is a most beautiful late fall fruit, ex- 

 hibited for the first time at our last anniversary, by Joshua 

 Hale, of Newbury port; it is a seedling apple, first raised by 

 Henry Corse, an amateur cultivator in Montreal, and which 

 promises to be an acquisition to our list of apples. Mr. Hale 

 informs us that the tree, with him, is of an upright growth, 

 similar to the Baldwin, and is a good bearer annually ; it was 

 set out in the fall of 1840, and bore the last season one and a 

 half bushels of fine fruit. Your committee found this fruit to 

 be in eating in November, and of a rich sub acid flavor, being 

 an excellent dessert fruit. In its rich coloring it surpasses any 

 apple we have ever seen, being beautifully striped with bright 

 flashes of crimson red. 



Fall Harvey. This is also a fine, large apple, of a rich flavor, 

 but somewhat variable in quality, as occasionally it will be 

 small and rather scrubby. It being, however, generally fair and 

 handsome, we commend its culture to our farmers. 



Williams' Early Red. This variety, when planted upon a 

 warm and deep soil, with high manuring, produces a beautiful 

 fruit, aboTC medium size, but in a light, thin soil, it is small 

 and indifferent. It will not accommodate itself, as has been 

 said of the Baldwin, to almost every variety of soil and aspect; 

 but under the above mode of culture it deserves a place in 

 every garden and orchard, and will then command a greater 

 price than any apple coming thus early in the season. 



Porter. This is a Massachusetts apple, first raised by Rev. 



