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experienced some trouble in growing Gravensteins ; he had 

 grafted ten or twelve trees to this Aariety hut could not get them 

 to bear and he had not produced a barrel from the whole lot 

 since grafting them over. He asked for the experience of others 

 on this point. 



Mr. Stone replied that it is impossible to graft the Gravenstein 

 with success. The only way is to grow it fi-om young trees. 



Christopher C. Shaw stated, regarding the Gravenstein apple, 

 that had he set out this variety it wovild have been many dollars 

 in his pocket. He had grafted over many trees to Gravensteins 

 and felt he had made no mistake and the grafted trees did well 

 with him. He recommended also the Danvers' Winter Sweet 

 and he believed the Mcintosh Red to be the coming apple. It 

 was a good grower, a good keeper, and of good flavor. It had 

 one trouble, a tendency to scab, but he thought that could be 

 controlled by spraying. He was sure that in a few years it was 

 to be the money getter of Xew England apples. 



Wilfrid Wheeler said that the orchard of Samuel Hartwell in 

 Lincoln was grown in grass land, but the grass after cutting was 

 left on the ground as a mulch. 



Mr. Wood remarked that nine-tenths of the orchards of New 

 England are grown in sod. The orchard of Dr. Fisher at Fitch- 

 burg was grown thus but the grass was cut three or four times a 

 year and left on the land. He thought that the fruit gradually 

 deteriorated under sod culture. 



William P. Rich said that there had been in recent years much 

 discussion among fruit growers upon the question of orchard til- 

 lage, and that the weight of opinion seemed to be in favor of 

 open cultivation and the sowing in the early summer of a cover 

 crop to be plowed under the succeeding spring. 



Mr. Wood added that fruit growers should study the markets 

 in which their fruit is to be sold. Varieties are not equally popu- 

 lar in all the cities. In Worcester the Sutton Beauty and the 

 Palmer Greening will luing prices that make these varieties 

 especially desirable to grow. The Mcintosh brought the highest 

 price in Boston last year of any apple sold and it is bound to 

 become popular in this market on account of its beauty and excel- 

 lent quality. 



