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ORCHARDS 



With the exception of a few trees in the fields which 

 have been well cultivated, manured and scraped, I have 

 not cultivated or manured the orchard thus far, have 

 only grafted and pruned. I propose to put one or two 

 loads swamp-muck to each tree next winter, and the 

 ensuing season one or two bushels ashes; cultivation 

 is impracticable. 



The varieties grafted are one hundred and twenty-six 

 Baldwins, thirty Hubbardston Nonesuch, five Roxbury 

 Eusset, and fourteen of various other varieties. The 

 expense incured for reclaiming the main orchard has 

 amounted to about $1,00 per tree, and the income 

 nothing to speak of until this year, when I obtained 

 nine barrels of apples, which sold for $27,00. 



W. G. WYMAN'S STATEMENT. 



RECLAIMED PEAR ORCHARD. 



The reclaimed Pear Orchard which I offer for a 

 premium consists of forty trees, thirty of which are,- 

 from the best information I can obtain in relation to 

 their history, from eighty-five to ninety years old, the 

 remaining ten are of various ages, from twenty years 

 upward. Most of them have never been cultivated. 

 They produced naturally a small native pear intended 

 originally for perry. 



In the spring of 1853, when they came into my 

 possession, I commenced grafting them, cutting off about 

 one-third of the top of each tree. Twenty-three were 

 grafted that season. The next year, 1854, I grafted 

 about one-third of the remaining limbs upon these trees, 



