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I hereby certify that Moses N. Adams has raked, 

 with his wheel hand rake on two different lots of 

 marsh for me, (in all I should think to the amount of 

 two and a half acres,) and finished his work with 

 unusual dispatch and to my perfect satisfaction. 



EBENEZER LITTLE. 



Newbury, October 1, 1840. 



ON FRUITS AND FLOWERS. 



It is said by our modern astronomers, that there 

 has been a regular succession of warm and cold 

 seasons for the last century, and according to their 

 calculation, the warm summers commenced, in 1837. 

 Be this however as it may, we find fruits generally 

 to have ripened earlier this season, than in the two 

 previous years; cherries, which ripened in 1838 and 

 '9, from the 4th to the 10th of July, were gathered 

 the present year in June. Regarding the past sea- 

 son we have seldom, on the whole, known a more 

 prolific one. Notwithstanding the early drought and 

 the multiplicity of insects upon our trees, causing 

 fruits to fall prematurely, it is gratifying to your 

 committee to find so many exhibited, showing an 

 increased attention to this department of cultivation. 

 They believe that as a source of income, no pursuit 

 could be more safely relied upon, than the cultiva- 

 tion of the finest winter apples, peculiarly suited to 

 our region. We say peculiarly suited, for, while we 

 acknowledge that the Newtown Pippen of Long 

 Island, and Pennock's fine winter Apple, of Penn- 

 sylvania, with some other southern varieties, the 

 fruit of which we occasionally receive, are very su- 

 perior, yet, when grown with us, are inferior to our 



