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•to the Baldwin, which seems to me to be an apple that one 

 does not tire of as we do of many of the new^er sorts. 



To speak lastly of a good winter eating apple, none is in 

 such favor in our immediate vicinity as the Hunt Russet, — 

 a smallish russet apple, smooth and fair, and very uniform in 

 size. Will keep good until apples come in the summer. 

 This kind cannot be too highly spoken of. They sell as read- 

 ily as bakers' turnovers at cattle show, — which is saying a 

 good deal for an ap2^le. Of th© ten varieties, I should say, 

 Astrachans, William's Favorite, Gravensteins, Hubbardstons, 

 Danvers Sweets, Fall Harveys, Sweet Baldwins, Baldwins, 

 Roxbury Russets, Hunt Russets, Greenings. 



These seem to us to be the leading kinds, but there are 

 hosts of others with which I am not ftmiiliar, and may be 

 better than many of those I have spoken of; but I think I 

 was only asked to tell what I knew, so I think my duty is 

 done. 



This is my humble opinion, humbly expressed. For what 

 it is worth take it. 



STATEMENT OF FRANCIS S. LOVETT, OF BEVERLY. 



I have sixty-five trees. Fifty are young, on light land, 

 with sand or gravelly subsoil. Fifteen old trees are on a 

 rocky piece of land. I have thirteen kinds ; have not ma- 

 nured the old trees, but the young orchard I have ploughed, 

 manured, and planted, as much as possible. I came here 

 about ten years ago, found the trees in grass land, growing 

 but very little. Ploughed up and have kept it ploughed up 

 since then. I cannot tell how the orchard was started. The 

 trees have grown finely, and bear well of an e^itra quality of 

 apple, mostly Baldwins ; have not been troubled by canker 

 worms ; a few borers in old trees ; have had an extra quantity 

 of caterpillars this year, especially this fall. I think the best of 

 way to get rid of them is to kill them morning and evening, 



