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After using Mathews' protector for two or three seasons, I 

 have resorted again to printers' ink for the destruction of the 

 canker worms. The caterpiUar with me has ahnost become 

 extinct. Cluster worms and fall caterpillars are easy to des- 

 troy. 



I prune my trees any time when convenient, except large 

 limbs, which I cut generally in the fall or early winter. I 

 keep my trees well pruned, taking off all useless twigs and 

 spurs. Wormy fruit I collect some three or four times in the 

 course of the season. I sell the best for what I can get, and 

 what is not sold or given away to those that have none, is 

 thrown into the hog-pen. 



The best apples for cultivation, all things considered, I give 

 the folio wino- : Baldwins, Rhode Island Greenings, Danvers 

 Sweet, Seaver Sweet, Fall Harvey, Sweet Baldwin, Hunt 

 Russet, Roxbury Russet, Northern Spy, Garden Apple, Hub- 

 bardston Nonsuch, Ben. Apple, Gravenstein, and Porter. 



For table use I give in order as they come : Early Harvest, 

 Red Astrachan, Porter, Gravenstein, Fall Harvey, Minister, 

 •Hubbardston, Baldwins, Greenings, and Hunt Russet. 



I will not speak of the peculiarities of any except the Gar- 

 den Apple. This apple seems to be but little known, yet I 

 knew it when a boy, but, like the Hunt Russet, it was kept 

 in obscurity. I believe I was the first to introduce the Hunt 

 Russet into the nursery. In its season the Garden Apple is 

 the best for culinary purposes, growing very large and fair, 

 and a great bearer. They come early into use, and last until 

 Thanksgiving. It is highly worthy of cultivation, and should 

 be encouraged by our Society. 



I think our premium list ought to be revised, both apple 

 and pear, dropping some and adding others. 



