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Wc have been informed that the crop of apples the present 

 year is small on those trees that produced those nameless 

 apples. But we hope and expect to hear, more about them 

 hereafter. 



We think the soil on which apples grow has much to do 

 with the quality of the fruit. A person who has a small 

 orchard which is kept in grass, &c., rich by top-dressing, said 

 to us the other day, our apples are not nearly as good as those 

 that grow on a certain orchard that he named. This agrees 

 with the opinion of the writer, that high cultivation is not 

 beneficial to the keeping qualities of the fruit. The fruit will be 

 larger but not better. Trees that spring up in pastures, if the 

 land is well adapted to fruit and the trees grafted, will produce 

 fruit of better quality and better keeping than that produced 

 on highly cultivated land. 



Mr. Currier also speaks of the importance of a cool cellar, 

 which we approve of. The temperature should he as low as 

 possible without freezing, and to this end the cellar should be 

 made cooler as fast as possible after the apples are put in. We 

 practice as follows : Our cellar is well ventilated with windows 

 and bulkhead doors. We have two bulkhead doors one of 

 which is wired like the windows. Two thermometers, one 

 outside and one inside ; when the weather is cooler outside, 

 we open the door and windows, when warmer outside we shut 

 them; so on from day to day as the weather indicates. This 

 will, to some extent at least, prevent the evil spoken of by Mr. 

 Currier, the apples shriveling. Our apples are kept in bins. 



We would suggest the method of cross grafting, which we 

 commenced last spring. We grafted Baldwin scions into a 

 Runnels apple tree, also some Runnels scions into a Baldwin 

 tree. Next Spring we intend to graft from those scions into 

 the same tree or the same variety, and so on from year to 

 year, which we think before many years will show the result. 

 We hope others will also try the experiment. 



The Society was congratulated at the dinner table at Lynn 

 .for the improvements made in the cultivation of vegetables 



