52 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Vincent. In regard to this matter of transplanting 

 trees, I think a great deal of the trouble arises from the fact 

 that the trees are left out of the ground too long before they 

 are reset, and the roots, which are cut off very short, die. 

 Now, I would say to every farmer, if you cannot get trees of 

 a near neighbor, have a nursery of your own and raise your 

 own trees, and when you take them out, put them into the 

 ground again as soon as you can. 



Now, a word or two in reference to the remarks of Mr. 

 Moore, in regard to the raising of pears on that salt marsh. 

 The thought occurs to me, whether a certain amount of salt is 

 not adapted to the pear, and productive of its growth ; and 

 it occurs to me now there are two gentlemen in Martha's 

 Vineyard who have succeeded better than ever before by 

 applying a certain amount of slacked lime and salt, using 

 about one-third as much salt as lime. By this application, 

 they have succeeded wonderfully in the improvement of their 

 pears. The remarks of Mr. Moore on that point confirm me 

 in the opinion that it is an excellent thing. I hope you will 

 make a trial of lime and salt, and see if your pears are not 

 improved in quantity and qualit}". I have made a little 

 beginning, acting upon the teachings of these gentlemen, and 

 I certainly have had better fruit this year, on the few trees I 

 cultivate, than ever before. I am going to keep on, and 

 make a full trial of that matter. 



Mr. Perry. I want to say a single word in regard to my 

 experience in taking grafts from trees that bore the odd year. 

 My brother and I, when we were little fellows, started a, 

 nursery. We had a large number of Baldwin trees, all but 

 one or two of which bore. the even years. We started an 

 orchard from the seed, and when the little trees got to be one 

 year old, we grafted them, taking the grafts from a tree that 

 bore the odd years. We were small boys then, and we rea- 

 soned that if we did that, we should have trees that would bear 

 the odd year. But the result did not prove that we were right 

 in our conjecture. I think that we raised on the old place this 

 year not far from a thousand barrels of Baldwins, and they came 

 mostly from trees grafted from that tree that bore the odd 

 years. We have also grafted over some twenty or twenty-five 

 old trees in the same way, taking grafts from the same tree, 



