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been fearful this variety would be a failure with us, and some 

 parlies had begun to graft them over on account of their 

 slowness in coming into bearing, and the fruit rotting on the 

 trees, their ill shape, their lateness in putting out in the 

 spring; but this year they have redeemed themselves, and 

 take the first rank, have all produced heavy crops of choice 

 apples, and at this date outsell any other variety by fifty cents 

 to a dollar a barrel. 



Statement of R. G. Ware, for B. P. Ware, of Marblehead. 



We have three hundred and thirty trees, of twenty-six dif- 

 ferent kinds. The soil is a loam, with gravelly subsoil and 

 clay below the gravel ; the trees manured with compost in 

 the spring. They are treated very much like other crops, 

 and are from fifteen to fifty years old. The young orchard 

 was started by setting the young trees twenty feet apart ; the 

 trees were budded when two years old. The orchard has 

 been cultivated ever since .the trees were set out, and the 

 trees severely pruned, with the hope of keeping them small 

 and of bringing them into early bearing. The trees, however, 

 wouldn't be kept small, and are now so thick that nearly every 

 other tree will have to be removed this year. 



We have very little trouble from borers. They are some- 

 times hunted with a pliable stick or wire. Caterpillars are 

 kept down by picking off the young nests. Canker-worms 

 are kept off by tarred paper and printers' ink, applied fall 

 and spring ; otherwise the leaves would be all eaten off the 

 trees by these worms. The trees are pruned nearly every 

 April. No special care is taken of wormy fruit that drops. 



Baldwin, Pickman Pippin, Drap d'Or, Roxbury Russet, 

 Danvers Winter Sweet, Sweet Baldwin, Greening, Early 

 Williams, Gravenstein, Porter, Shepard's Sweeting, Kilham 

 Hill, Peck's Pleasant, Phillips Pippin and Lyscom, are all 

 good varieties ; but Drap d'Or, Pickman Pippin, Baldwin, 

 Early Williams, Roxbury Russet and Sweet Baldwin are the 

 most profitable to raise for market. 



For table, Early Williams, Porter, Gravenstein, Drap 

 d'Or, Lyscom, Kilham Hill, Baldwin and Roxbury Russet 

 give a constant and excellent supply from August 15 to June 1. 



