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growth sufficiently to satisfy the most timid. Just 

 compare such vigorous, healthy, fruit-bearing trees with 

 thousands that may be seen anywhere, planted in grass 

 ground, or checked in their growth by the borer, main- 

 taining a feeble, sickly existence, and producing a 

 bushel or two, perhaps, of wormy and knotty fruit, and 

 that too quite as early as the most impatient and short- 

 sighted might desire, and all apprehension of too rapid 

 growth will vanish as dew before the morning sun. 



C. C. FIELD, Chairman. 



J. M. SAWTELL'S STATEMENT. 



ORCHARDS. 



The orchard which I offer for the Society's premium 

 consist of fifty-six trees of the following varieties, viz: 

 Minister, Foundling, Gravenstein, Porter, Sopsofwine, 

 R.I. Greening, Ladies Sweet, Liscomb, Baldwin, Northern 

 Spy, Mother Apple, Hubbardston, Nonsuch, and some 

 that I do not know the names of. Forty of them were 

 set out in May, 1856, and the rest in May, 1857. I 

 obtained them of the Shakers at Groton, at twenty five 

 cents each. They were two and three years from the 

 bud. The holes in which they ^vere set, were dug from 

 four to five feet in diameter, and from fifteen to twenty 

 inches deep, and thirty feet apart. The land was in^ 

 sw^ard, bearing a light crop of grass. Many places the 

 ledge was laid bare in digging the holes. The sods 

 were cut in pieces and returned to the holes and put 

 about the roots wdth the best of the loam, the sods 

 serving to keep the soil loose and moist about the roots. 



