54 ON MULBERRY TREES, StC. 



pinion that our climate is not unfavourable to the culture of silk, 

 and that no great obstacles exist in the successful prosecution of 

 this important branch of domestic industry. 



The applications for the premiums of this Society, offered for 

 the several subjects committed to your Committee, have been 

 four in number, viz : — 



Gardner B. Perry, of Bradford. 

 Samuel Eaton, of Methuen. 

 Thomas Bailey, of Amesbury. 

 Abel Nichols, of Danvers. 

 Mr. Perry offered for premium a nursery of white mulberry 

 trees of 3 years growth, about 5500 in number, transplanted 

 with much care, in the spring of the second year, and set out in 

 rows about two feet apart. Their average height is about five 

 and a half feet, and many of them seven and eight feet. This 

 nursery appeared exceedingly well, and it is the opinion of Mr. 

 Perry that the trees are of a superior quality. As the premiums 

 of the society are offered for those nurseries only not exceeding 

 two years growth, the Committee do not feel themselves at liber- 

 ty to award any premium for this nursery. 



Mr. Perry had another nursery of two years growth, the pro- 

 duce of three ounces of seed, and containing about two thousand 

 trees, the largest about three feet in height and the smallest a- 

 bout two feet. 



About 150 rods are set out with mulberry trees for a hedge or 

 fence from two to four feet apart, mostly of two and three years 

 growth. The greater part were set out the past year, but some 

 of them were set out the present year. For the above nursery 

 of two years growth the Committee award to Mr. Perry the se- 

 cond premium of fifteen dollars. 



Mr. Perry also exhibited to your Committee for premium a- 

 bout 400 sugar maple trees, transplanted from the forest the last 

 spring and on an average about 8 or 9 feet high. About 170 

 tire set by the wall on the borders of a field at the distance of 

 one rod from each other. One hundred are set in a lot in or- 

 chard form, two rods apart one way and one rod the other way. 



