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who purchased them for their own family use. Soon there 

 was complaint that the apples did not keep well. 



There is much difference in what is called gravelly land. 

 There is a kind of soil composed mostly of sand and pebble 

 stones of the size of coarse sand upwards, that is unproductive 

 for almost any crop. The gravelly land above mentioned is of 

 a different nature. It is a rich loam with a large mixture of 

 apparently broken stones, as one digs for a cellar or well he 

 soon comes to larger stones, and eventually in most cases to a 

 solid ledge. The roots of the trees will find their wav where 

 the pick and spade will not penetrate, and sometimes to a 

 great depth. Trees have been set where it was with difficulty 

 that sufficient soil to cover the roots could l)e obtained. The 

 trees would live there and bear the best of fruit. In regard to 

 unproductive land, we have a case to the point. A gentleman 

 from the county of Middlesex informs us, that many years ago 

 he planted an orchard and gral'ted it with scions from the 

 original baldwin tree, and received the society's first premium 

 on young orchards. On enquiry about the soil and cultivation, 

 he said the land was a sandy gravel, was freely manured and 

 kept cultivated, and farther represented that the ti-ees soon 

 began to decay and eventually died. It thus appears that such 

 land is not profitable for an orchard, although with high culti- 

 vation a premium may have been received. 



Last winter and spring we repeatedly called at the stores and 

 shops where apples were sold to ascertain how the apples com- 

 pared that were purchased of different farmers and from dif- 

 ferent localities. Two things were observable. First, nearly 

 all the apples that came to our notice were Baldwins, and few 

 other varieties except some Russets in the spring ; showing 

 that there were but few other apples produced. Second, there 

 was a great difference in those Baldwins. We should hardly 

 have known some of them as Baldwins had we not been told. 

 We think the cause of this great difference must be the influence 

 of the stock on the fruit of the scion or from the soil on which 

 they grow; both may have had their influence. The soil has a 



