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sion to stray away from our subject for a moment, and call 

 attention to those unsightly stumps, called apple trees, that 

 line our thoroughfares, and take up much valuable room in 

 fields and orchards. We have reference to those seen as if 

 ready to tumble down, having hollow trunks surrounded with 

 root suckers, white branchless limbs, and gray with age all 

 over. Such trees, in our opinion, ought to have long since 

 found their way to the wood pile, to make room for others 

 more beautiful and profitable. Clear away along the stone 

 walls, also, and burn up all the rubbish. Then may it be said 

 of us, that we have well filled our sphere in cultivating the 

 soil, and left it better than we found it. 



John O'Brien, Chairman ; John Preston, G. W. Gage, 

 James A. Teel — Committee. 



APPLES. 



The more experienced and efficient members of the Apple 

 Committee were unable to be present, making the labor of the 

 untrained remnant severe, and the results unsatisfactory to 

 them and probably to many of the exhibitors. 



The show of apples was very fine, for the off year, especial- 

 ly considering the very large crop of last year. It would be 

 interesting to know whether or not the trees, which produced 

 the fruit shown, bore last year, and if so, the state of cultiva- 

 tion they were under. 



There seems yet to be a question as to the possibility of 

 changing the bearing year, and whether or not there are ofll- 

 year bearing stocks which, if budded or grafted from, would 

 continue to produce on the off-year. The general subject of 

 apple growing, including the above, and questions as to the in- 

 fluence of the stock on the scion, variations in varieties, <fec., 

 might profitably be a subject for discussion at one of our soci- 

 ety meetings, lately established. Should it be brought up, it is 



