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emptied loose upon the table, is not treated with equal fair- 

 ness with those using the regular plates of the Society ; and 

 therefore the Society should provide plates enough of its own 

 for all to use, and we would recommend that it do so before 

 another season. We also think more notice ought to be taken 

 by the trustees of the reports of their committees, and 

 where recommendations are made in them, they should be 

 noticed and acted upon, even if not adopted. Where such 

 notice is not taken, you add another discouragement to a 

 faithful committee. 



About apples and their culture, your Committee, through 

 their Chairman, tried to get the experience of every exhibitor, 

 that their statements might be condensed and put in tabular 

 form, that comparisons could be made more readily, and the 

 information desired found separated like grain from its chaff; 

 but the responses made to the questions, ashed of all, have 

 been so few that these statements are appended to this Report 

 for its readers to do their own sifting, which will be found to 

 recommend as the best and most profitable apples for raising 

 in this county, the Baldwin, Hubbardston Nonsuch, Graven- 

 stein, Rhode Island Greening, Danvers Winter Sweet, Red 

 Astrachan, Hunt's Russet, Roxbury Russet, Porter, and 

 Williams Favorite. 



Coal ashes have been tried on their apple- trees, by some, 

 with very satisfactory results. The reports on peaches last 

 year, showed that coal ashes around peach-trees had proved 

 beneficial. If more experiments were made with coal ashes, 

 we should find more virtue in them for tree and plant life 

 than they have been supposed to contain. Salt has been used 

 in manure with beneficial results to the trees. 



We are led to think that pine-trees are a great preventive 

 of the ravages of the canker and currant worm, as some 

 orchards with plenty of pines near them are not visited by 

 them. Will our apple-growers notice this, and if such is 

 generally the case, make it known to our secretary, that 

 experiments may be made with pine boughs as a preventive. 

 Printers' ink is universally considered the best protector yet 

 known for apple-trees. Mathews' protector has proved itself 

 an injury to the trees, in one locality at least, trees having 

 been badly injured by their use. 



