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of a lono" pole, and the canker worms are treated to a coat 

 of tar. M.y trees are pruned (but not excessively) in the 

 month of May ; the cuts on the larger branches I cover with 

 paint. My wormy fruit I bury deep in the ground away from 

 the trees. With regard to the choice of apples, I think that 

 mnst depend principally on the taste and fancy peculiar to 

 each individual, and among the great variety of apples pro- 

 duced, it seems as though every one ought to be gratified. It 

 is well, perhaps, that personal tastes and fancies differ, as 

 otherwise some things now considered very choice would be' 

 entirely neglected. 



STATEMENT OF H. ALLEY,* OF WENHAM. 



I am not a great fruit grower, but I am interested in such 

 things, and am watching the markets as to prices, quantity, 

 and quality of the diiferent kinds of fruit, and on this ac- 

 count, in making a reply to your questions in regard to apples, 

 I will say that I have twenty apple trees — 'Seven Baldwins, 

 two Gravensteins, two Porters, two Hubbardston, two Dan- 

 vers Sweet, two Red Astrachans, two Northern Spy, and one 

 other, a worthless kind. For profit, and all things consid- 

 ered, I would select the following five varieties : Red Astra- 

 chan, Gravenstein, Hubbardston, Baldwins, and Porters. All 

 the above kinds do well in this part of the county. Have 

 been troubled with canker worms, but by the use of tar pa- 

 per and printer's ink, they were nearly exterminated. 



I prune all my trees during the winter from the middle of 

 January to the first of March. Had two Porter trees that 

 never gave me over one barrel each until I pruned them, then 

 they gave me three barrels each, of as fine fruit as ever grew 

 in the county. 



The windfalls and wormy apples are sent to the cider mill. 

 We always found a ready sale for our Red Astrachans and 

 Gravensteins, and at prices treble those of other varieties, 



