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June. His fruit is of select varieties, the product of great care ; 

 and the remuneration is ample. Eight hundred dollars a year is not 

 an unusual product of his orchard. 



The use of cider, though that of the choicest quality is still made 

 in the county, is going fast out of fashion ; and it has ceased to be 

 of much demand in the market. The value of apples for fattening 

 swine and beef stock, where they are not given in too great excess, 

 is so fully established by the experience of many of the best farmers 

 in the county, that apples ought to be much cultivated for that, if for 

 no other object. As human food likewise, when simply cooked, 

 few articles are more wholesome or nutritious. 



Other fruits, pears, plums, grapes, and the smaller fruits are not 

 cultivated as they ought to be, though much more extensively than 

 formerly. A taste for flowers and the external rural embellishments 

 of the houses and grounds, is every where springing up. Besides 

 its strong tendency to multiply the attachments to home, among the 

 best safeguards of virtue, and furnishing sources of delightful recrea- 

 tion, it is highly conducive to intellectual and moral improvement. 



The Rev. G. B. Perry of Bradford, a gentleman as much dis- 

 tinguished for his practical skill, intelligence, and public spirit, as for 

 his exemplariness in his pastoral character, has ascertained an effec- 

 tual remedy against the insect, which has been so fatal to the plum 

 trees by boring into them, and causing an exudation of sap and a 

 black excrescence, which presently destroys the trees. As soon as 

 there is any appearance of the disorder " he cuts off" every limb 

 affected with it ; and where the disorder is in the trunk, carefully 

 chisels it out, always taking care to put every limb and chip taken 

 from it immediately into the fire. By this means, he lias got en- 

 tirely rid of the disorder. He has found the worm, which occasions 

 the injury, most strong and active about the 4th of July." 



A Society of Natural History, has been established in the county, 

 who liave occasional exhibitions of flowers and fruits. Some of the 

 gardens and green houses in Salem and its vicinity, exhibit great 

 skill, intelligence, and success, in the beautiful arts of fruit and flower 

 cultivation, and are exerting a powerful and delightful influence. , 



