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pose, were left imbudded. The ground upon which 

 they then and have since stood, is similar to that in 

 which the seed was originally sown — light and sandy — 

 the trees have received no injury whatever from the win- 

 ter or early spring. I am not aware that a single tree 

 of the lot has ever been thrown up or killed by the frost, 

 and they have never received any protection but from 

 the hand of Nature herself. 



My budded trees have made a fine growth the past 

 season — averaging perhaps four feet — some reaching 

 to nearly six feet in height. The trees are healthy and 

 vigorous, and prove most plainly that it is not necessa- 

 ry for us to import pear stocks from France, when they 

 can be raised, as mine have been, at home. 



ALLEN W. DODGE. 



Hamilton, Nov. 2, 1843. 



ON FOREST TREES. 

 The Committee on Forest Trees, respectfully E,e- 



PORT : 



That the only Plantation of Forest Trees which has 

 been offered for premium the present year is one offered 

 by Mr. Benjamin Poore, of West Newbury. Mr Poore 

 commenced planting forest trees some twenty four years 

 since, but with little success for a number of years. 

 Mr. Poore's Forest is on the southerly side of a steep 

 hill, containing some two or three acres, on which there 

 had been formerly a growth of hickory — he has planted 

 acorns and transplanted trees of two years' growth, from 

 time to time since 1832, from the nursery to this piece 

 of land, on which there is now growing more than two 

 thousand trees of different age and size, some of which 

 are twenty feet in height. Mr. Poore has also a great 

 number of Locust Trees, growing on the margin of his 

 field, where as an experiment he has trenched the land 

 from one to two feet in depth before planting the trees, 

 with good success. 



Your Committee are satisfied that Mr. Poore, by the 



