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 Andover, Mass., Oct. 30, '90. 



Having measured a portion of the parsnips on the above 

 piece, the yield is at the rate of two hundred and fifty-nine 

 bushels per half acre, and fifty-five pounds to the bushel. 



Samuel Thayer. 



TREES AND TREE CULTURE ON THE FARM OF 

 MR. FRANCIS H. APPLETON. 



In behalf of the Committee on Forest Trees who visited 

 the farm of Mr. Francis H. xVppleton,* and at the request 

 of the Secretary of the Essex Agricultural Society, the fol- 

 lowing report is respectfully presented : — 



In response to a kind invitation of Mr. Francis H. Apple- 

 ton to visit his farm in West Peabody, near Lynnfield, in 

 connection with the official visit of the society's committee 

 on forest trees, several gentlemen met at the appointed 

 hour on Wednesday, July 2, 1890, and examined the trees, 

 both native and introduced in nearly every portion of the 

 estate. 



The farm is situated on the northern shore of Suntaug 

 Lake, Lynnfield P. 0. and, as will be seen by Mr. Apple- 

 ton's statement, the land upon which the improvements 

 have been made, scarcely more than twenty years ago was 

 a bleak field " covered with mossy corn hills '' of unknown 

 origin and was largely in the condition of all exhausted 

 and neglected lands. 



The soil in this portion of the farm, gravel covered with 

 a thin coating of loam, familiar in the neighborhood of 

 " kames '' in Essex county, is typical of the region and was 

 probably the last work of the ice and rushing waters at the 

 close of the glacial epoch. 



*It should be slated that Mr. Appleton made no entry in competition for 

 the society's prizes. 



