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if necessary, and ^radiLallij prune out all dead and decaying 

 limbs. To produce fndtfalness, the pruning should be done 

 in summer ; to produce growth, in winter. 



Apple trees are often planted injudiciously upon wet or 

 springy laud, which is the cause of their premature decay. 

 The loss of the apple crop is a serious one to many farmers ; 

 one half, at least of the actual income of many f;\rms in 

 this county was formerly derived from this crop. It was the 

 nv'st profitable crop, considering the expense. Let us look to 

 it, that it may be so in future. 



It is the opinion of your Committee, that many of the 

 varieties of apples, for which premiums are offered year after 

 year, have either a local value, or no value at all for general 

 cultivation, and ought to be discarded. Some of them ai*e as 

 unproductive, and as much out of date, as is the old St. 

 Michael pear. We Avould recommend for general cultivation, 

 only a few varieties, and those of the highest excellence, both 

 as regards the growth and fruitfulness of the tree, and the 

 value of the fruit in the market. 



T. C. Thurlow, George W. Gage, James Flint, Alfred Fel- 

 lows, William Chickering, Committee. 



GRAPES, PEACHES AND ASSORTED FRUIT. 



The committee were very happily disappointed in finding 

 so large and very superior show of Grapes. There were 113 

 plates entered, by twenty-two individuals, which in quality 

 the Committee think they have never seen surpassed at any 

 show. They would especially mention the very superior 

 show of thirty-one plates — nineteen kinds of Grapes — by 

 Eben Mitchell, of Haverhill ; also that of seventeen platea 

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