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I hereby certify that I measured the ground on which the 

 above crop of blackberries grew, and find it to contain fifty-two 

 and one-half square rods. G. L. Barker. 



NEW VARIETY OF WINTER APPLES. 



It seems to your committee necessary in making their 

 report to refer to the report of last year. It was then stated 

 that Mr. Alfred Ordway, of Bradford, had applied for the 

 Society's premium of $100, for his new variety of seedling 

 apples. No action was taken by the committee. 



The present committee, Joseph Howe, John O'Brien, Joshua 

 N. Kent, R. P. Waters and Aaron Low, met at the Exhibition 

 Hall at Lynn, on the first day of the fair, to view Mr. Ordway's 

 apples, and consider the subject as to their value. The apples 

 are about the size of a medium-sized Baldwin, not quite so 

 red but a little striped and spotted like the Gravenstien. They 

 are said to keep as well, or better, than the Baldwin, and 

 the trees to be good bearers. The committee thought favora- 

 bly of them, but not enough was known to justify awarding so 

 large a premium. They therefore concluded to defer the sub- 

 ject until more information could be obtained. In regard 

 to the origin of the apples it was last year misunderstood. 

 We then stated that the apples grew on a seedling tree in Mr. 

 Ordway's pasture. The fact now appears to be, the apples 

 originated in a neighbor's pasture, or wood lot. Mr. Ordway 

 ■noticed the fruit, thought it might be valuable, took scions 

 therefrom, and grafted them into two of his own trees, which 

 produced the fruit that has been presented. The owner of the 

 ..seedling tree, not knowing its value, caused it to be cut with 

 the wood surrounding it. 



Another variety of apples was also alluded to in the last 

 year's report, said to have originated by a cross of the Bald- 

 win and Roxbury Russet. As but little was known of its 

 origin and as some persons doubted the theory of cross-graft- 



