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by the Ti'ustees of the reports of their Committees, and 

 where recommendations are made in them they should be no- 

 ticed and acted upon, even if not adopted. Where such notice 

 is not taken, you add another discouragement to a faithful 

 Committee. 



About Apples and their culture, your Committee, through 

 their Cliairman, tried -to get tlie experience of every exhibi- 

 tor, that their statements might be condensed and put in tab- 

 ular form, that comparisons could be made more readily, and 

 the information desired found separated like grain from its 

 chaff; but the responses made to the questions, ashed of all, 

 have been so few that these statements are appended to this 

 report for its readers to do their own sifting, which will be 

 found to recommend as the best and most profitable Apples 

 for raising in this County, the Baldwin, Hubbardston Non- 

 such, Gravenstein, R. I. Greening, Danvers Winter Sweet, 

 Red Astrachan, Hunt's Russet, Roxbury Russet, Porter, and 

 William's Favorite. 



Coal Ashes have been tried by some to their apple trees 

 with very satisfactory results. The reports on Peaches last 

 year, showed that coal ashes around peach trees had proved 

 beneficial. If more experiments were made with coal ashes, 

 we should find more virtue in it for tree and plant life than it 

 has been supposed to contain. Salt has been used in manure 

 with beneficial results to the trees. 



We are led to think that pine trees are a great preventive 

 of the ravages of the canker and currant worm, as some or- 

 chards with plenty of pines near them are not visited by 

 them. Will our apple-growers notice this, and if such is 

 generally the case, make it known to our Secretary, that ex- 

 periments may be made with pine boughs as a preventive. 

 Printers' Ink is universally considered the best protector yet 

 known for apple trees. Mathews' protector has proved itself 

 an injury to the trees, in one locality at least, trees having 

 been badly injured by their use. 



