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and orchard was admitted. They believe that labor 

 and manure expended in the cultivation of fruit trees 

 will be repaid many fold in the improved quantity and 

 quality of the crops. It has occurred to the Committee 

 that it might not be out of place for them to suggest, 

 that it would be well hereafter to include orchards in 

 the objects for premiums. It is very clear that the num- 

 ber of Nurseries must be limited and will soon be ex- 

 hausted as subjects for premium. 



We annex the statement of Mr. Thurlow, the only 

 one we have received, with only this remark, that the 

 insect which he speaks of as known to nursery-men by 

 the name of the Ant Grub, is probably the Aphis, or 

 green fly — some variety of which attacks the new growth 

 of almost all plants ; and that a very interesting account 

 of this insect is to be found in "Harris' Insects injuri- 

 ous to Vegetation." A work which should be in the 

 possession of every one who is much engaged in the 

 cultivation of trees or plants. 



JOHN C. LEE, ] 



CHAS. LAWRENCE, I ^ 



ABEL NICHOLS, CommitUe. 



PICKERING DODGE. J 



GEORGE THURLOW'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Fruit Trees : 



Gentlemen, — As you requested me to give you a 

 more particular statement of the cultivation of my Nur- 

 sery than I could on the day you visited me, I therefore 

 embrace the first opportunity. The whole Nursery con- 

 tains I should think about one acre of land, situated on 

 the southerly side of a large hill, unfortunately rather 

 steep, as it is liable to be washed by every heavy rain. 

 The soil is of easy cultivation, being a gravelly loam, 

 some portions of it very dry with a hard sub-soil, con- 

 taining about twenty thousand trees of all kinds ; con- 

 sisting of apples, peach, plum, cherry, quince, grape- 

 vines and mountain ash ; it being my chief object to raise 



