FRUITS. -Ill 



The variation in size and appearance of the same varieties 

 of apples and pears from different localities in the county 

 demonstrates the ity of ascertaining the conditions of 



our several soils. The Williams' Favorite and the Pickman 

 apples cannot be well crown but upon a strong retentive soil, 



as also the Lewis and Wilkinson pears. 



In regard to fruit for market culture, we would suggest the 

 importance of raising winter varieties in preference to fall and 

 summer fruits. Fall apples, ripening at the time of our best 

 pears and peaches, must necessarily have a limited sale. This 

 is well shown in the Gravenstein, which is one of our best 

 apples ; but ripening- as it does at the time of the Bartlett and 

 other fine pears, as well as the Crawford peaches, the demand 

 for it is small. As to the best winter apples for Essex County 

 culture, it may be considered, as we think, a fixed fact, with but 

 two or three exceptions, that by far the greater number of 

 line winter apples which are considered the best for our culture 

 are those which have originated on the soil of Xew England — 

 the Nonesuch, from Hubbardston; the Mother, from Bolton; 

 Baldwin, Roxbury Russet, Rhode Island Greening, Danvers 

 Winter Sweet, Haskell's fine Sweet, Minister, and the Murphy. 

 These are all such as we would commend lor general culture. 

 Of the finest winter pears, we should enumerate for table fruit 

 the Winter Nelis, Lawrence, and Lewis ; and for cooking. 

 " Vicar of Wakefield," Black Pear of Worcester, Pound, and 

 Catillac. For peaches, Crawford's Early and Late Mclacoton, 

 and the Red-Cheek Melacoton. 



There seems to be an increasing desire among many of our 

 farmers to grow the best varieties of apples ; and we trust the 

 time is not distant when our fine New England apples shall 

 take the place of old varieties, such as the York Ru called 



Cat Ilea'!.; the Blue Pearmain, and other indifferent winter 

 apples. 



Although fruit is not absolutely indispensable to the support 



of human existence, it is a useful and wholesome article of food, 



and should be ranked among the best gifts of Providence. Mr. 



■11 observed, that the " palate which relishes fruit 



eldom pleased with strong fermented liquors. Good fruit, 



therefore, operates favorably both on the physical and moral 



