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Your Committee found, among the others exhibited, a most 

 excellent apple, very large and handsome, crisp and juicy, 

 with a very tine flavor ; it being entirely unknown among 

 the fruit-growers present, who, with the Committee, tested its 

 eating qualities. The name given to it by the exhibitor being 

 considered incorrect, your Committee unanimously decided to 

 name it for one so long identitied with and loved by 'our So- 

 ciety ; we therefore gave it the name of the Sutton Apple, 

 and as such it will be extensively cultivated for its worth. 



The exhibit of apples by our Society, in size and good 

 looks, was worthy a place second to none we saw at the Cen- 

 tennial Exhibition, though the average size of some may have 

 been larger from the States in the prolific West; yet, in 

 beauty and keeping qualities, our apples beat them. Canada 

 made a fine show of apples, and in plums she excelled all 

 competitors, showing that we may hope yet to regain here 

 this delicious fruit, ripening between the cherry and the ap- 

 ple, which has been so profitable in this County in the past, 

 and which our Society should olfer special inducements to 

 promote their cultivation, that eventually a remedy for the 

 circulio and black knot can be found. 



A variety of opinion prevails in regard to the expediency 

 and benefit of root pruning. We have found in ploughing 

 an old orchard, breaking ofi:' roots of various sizes, that the 

 trees since have started witli fresh vigor in growth, producing 

 much larger apples, with less tendency to drop, than before. 



We have also found an excellent preventive from the rav- 

 ages of ground mice on young trees, to be a couple of shov- 

 els full of fresh cow manure put around the butt of the tree 

 late in the season. 



We were in hopes to draw out from the experience of so 

 many diflerent fruit-growers individual experiments and re- 

 sults, which would in the aggregate furnish information to 

 our Society of the most valuable kind ; but the exhibitors 

 were not so interested in furnishing it as your Committee in 



