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KEPORT ON FRUIT TREES. 



The Committee on Fruit Trees have awarded the following 

 premiums : — 



To Henry L. Stone, of Needham, for his apple orchard, 



the first premium, ..... $10.00 



To Henry Goulding, of Dover, for his apple orchard, 



•the second premium, ..... 7.00 



The statements in regard to the abovementioned orchards, ac- 

 company this report. 



EDWARD M. RICHARDS, Chairman. 

 Dedham, Dec. 3, 1858. 



HENRY L. STONE'S STATEMENT. 



I offer for premium, an orchai'd, set out in the fall of 1852, con- 

 sisting of eighty-eight trees, of the following varieties, viz : — Thirty 

 Northern Spy, thirty Baldwin, eight Rhode Island Greenings, five 

 Pumpkin Sweet, and fifteen Ilubbardston Nonesuch. 



The soil is a strong loam, with gravelly clay subsoil. The holes 

 were dug twenty-five feet apart, three and a half feet in diame- 

 ter, and fifteen inches deep, filled with meadow mud, and most of 

 the trees set on the surface, and the original soil drawn up, forming 

 a mound about the trees. On a portion of the land, a little more 

 elevated, and Avith a better natural drainage, the trees were set as 

 much below the surface as they had stood in the nursery. The 

 land has been in grass two years, and cultivated with corn or po- 

 tatoes four years, well manured, and yielding good crops. The 

 trees have been washed twice each year, in a solution of soda 

 ash, of one pound to a gallon of water. This season most of the 

 trees, except the Northern Spy, have borne from half a dozen to 

 a dozen apples each, all sound, fine fruit, and of good size. 



Henry L. Stone. 



G-rantville, Nov. 10, 1858. 



HENRY GOULDING'S STATEMENT. 



The apple orchard which I offer for premium contains 123 trees. 

 12 trees were set out in 1848, 9 in 1849, 28 in 1851, GO in 1852, 

 14 in 1853. 



A few that did not grow well have been dug up, and others set 



