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mixed with the good qualities of the Baldwin, we think they 

 would become a valuable variety. It is the opinion of many 

 apple growers that the fruit from the scion does partake, to 

 some extent, of the natural stock. If so, may it not by a long 

 continued interchange become so mixed as to become another 

 variety ? 



We hope the experiment will be tried, although it may take 

 a long time to do it, and would suggest whether it could not 

 be done more expeditiously by budding than by grafting. We 

 also hope, hereafter, to hear more about the nameless apple. 



May it not be possible that there may be in our midst other 

 varieties of late keeping winter apples, like those nameless 

 ones, whose value is not known. A person said to me that he 

 had a kind of good apple that would keep until late in the 

 spring, without decay ; he knew not their name nor how long 

 they would keep, as he had but few and used them up. We 

 would suggest to such to look after the one hundred dollar pre- 

 mium, and we hope that some valuable new varieties may come 

 to our knowledge as the result. 



We received a letter from a gentleman in Bucksport, Maine, 

 who had seen our former report, expressing strongly the neces- 

 sity of a new variety of winter apple that will preserve its 

 good quality until July, thus showing that the interest in the 

 cause is increasing and widespread. 



Joseph How, Chairman. 



