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but we never succeeded in raising many Baldwins the odd 

 years. 



Mr. Chapin of Worcester. I want to ask one question in 

 regard to the pear. I want to know if there is any remedy 

 for the blight, except amputation ? What I mean by the pear 

 blight is, a limb or limbs will grow black, and there will be 

 an apparent wilting of the bark. It is well known here, and 

 I suppose gentlemen from other parts of the State must have 

 it in their orchards. I have seen pears apparently in good 

 condition at the end of a limb, but the leaves on the limb 

 were black, and there was this shrinking of the bark. The 

 only remedy I have found was to cut off the limb where there 

 was no indication of the disease. 



The Chairman. The Chair will state that he never heard 

 of any other. 



Mr. Harrison. I want simply to say that I budded eighty 

 trees of the Baldwin variety from a tree that bore the even 

 years. The result was, that two-thirds of the eighty trees 

 commenced to bear the odd year, and I felt as though I had 

 made a strike in the right direction. I also budded eight of 

 the Yellow Pearmain variety of apples, taking the buds from 

 a tree that bore the even years. The result was, that four of 

 them bore the odd year, and they have continued to do so up 

 to the present time. Last year, I took some six or eight 

 barrels off of those that bore the odd year. This year, they 

 did not bear. The Baldwin trees have mostly changed, and 

 I must say, I am glad of it, because, when I raise apples, I 

 want to raise those of decent quality. The fact is, that the 

 trees that bear the odd year take all the worms from the ter- 

 ritory around me, and the fruit is really almost worthless. 

 Unless we can change the trees over a large territory, it 

 seems to me it is hardly desirable for us to have our trees 

 bear the odd years, for certainly we should have to take all 

 the worms, and I would about as lief have no apples as to 

 have them full of worms. 



Mr. Kinney. There is one little point, which, it seems to 

 me, has not been illustrated satisfactorily, and that is in 

 regard to producing fruit from fruit-buds. We are told that 

 grafts taken from odd-year bearers do not bear regularly on 

 the odd years. Is there not something in the age of the 



