1894.] ESSAYS. 33 



iste has borne only one good crop for ten years ; an unsheltered and 

 equally vigorous i)ear-tree of the same variety has borne at least a 

 fair crop each year since it came to bearing. These two instances are 

 hardly enough to support a theory : perhaps the suggestion may be 

 supplemented by the experience or observation of others. 



Notes. [The discussion following this paper was interesting and 

 valuable. Two or three of the participants related accounts of their 

 success in securing nearly uniform bearing of apples and pears by 

 picking off a part of the blossoms when the tree seemed likely to 

 overbear. 



Instances were also given of the change in the year of fruit-bearing 

 by the ruin of the crop by frost in the regular year of bearing. 



The matter of too much wind or too little wind at the time of blos- 

 soming was thought to have little influence on fructification. 



The following varieties of apples were mentioned as bearing only on 

 alternate years : Oldenburg, Baldwin, and Holden Pippin ; while the 

 Roxbury Russet, Palmer Greening, Rhode Island Greening, Early 

 Williams and Astrachan bear annually. 



Apples grown in grass-ground have better keeping qualities, — they 

 mature later.] 



