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desired effect, for the reason that the stock the first year will 

 have but little effect on the scion. The Roxbury Russet is a 

 late iveeping- variefy, and if the Baldwin should be grafted into 

 that stock we might see such results. Essex also asks at the 

 same time what kind of land is best adapted to growing late 

 keeping winter fruit, and is high cultivation desirable ? Reply: 

 Fruit grown on high, rocky land will keep longer than that 

 grown on i-icher lower land, and also that fruit grown on trees 

 standing in the grass will keep much longer than that raised 

 on trees that have received high cultivation. 



One of the Trustees of our Society said to us at the trustees' 

 meeting in June, 1881, that he had just been picking over and 

 selling his Russets, and those that grew on trees scattered over 

 the farm have rotted less and are now harder and better than 

 those that grew on his best orchard. Substantially the same 

 remark has been repeatedly made by our farmers when asked 

 where their best keeping apples grow. On our pastures has 

 been the reply in nearly all cases. These pasture apples spoken 

 of are usually apples that grow on trees that have come up nat- 

 urally in the pastures and have been grafted with Baldwin 

 scions. One of those persons who said that the best keeping 

 apples grew in pastures, said that he had a Baldwin tree that 

 has the wash from the sink spout and the apples grow large, 

 but are of poor quality for keeping. 



In the early part of the present century there had sprung 

 up on my father's premises a lot of young apple trees, that he 

 in due time grafted mostly with R. 1. greenings, then a new 

 variety from Rhode Island, a few russets and green sweets, 

 which were the principal winter apples then produced in our 

 vicinity, (bald wins were not then known). The trees are on 

 descending ground from the barn and its surroundings, so that 

 the land has been kept rich from the wash passing over it, and 

 some of it excessively so. The grafting of those trees by my 

 father, their thrifty appearance as seen from the house that 

 was near, and the great fine apples produced, caused a sensa- 

 tion in my boyhood that I cannot well forget. I have been 



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