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since then we have manured it light, and sown it with turnips 

 about the first of August. 



My East orchard was set out in the Fall of 1848, trees two 

 years from bud, it contained 110 trees, 28 feet apart each way, 

 with a peach tree between them, set in the Spring of 1849, 

 the holes were dug 18 inches deep 4 to 5 feet across. There 

 are 14 varieties, viz., 25 Baldwins, 10 Golden Ball, 10 Hub- 

 bardston Nonesuch, 10 Golden Russett, 10 Roxbury Russett, 

 5 Spice sweet, 5 Sweet Russett, 5 Danvf-rs Winter Sweet, 5 

 Orange apple, 5 Winter, 5 Lyscomb, 5 Swaar, 5 Mother, 5 

 Crown. 



This orchard has been in grass ; it was set in grass, and has 

 been kept so since, it was laid down three years before the 

 orchard was transplanted ; nothing of note has been done to 

 the trees since setting until last fall, when I put five shovels 

 full of manure around the r@ots, to keep away the mice and 

 enrich the soil ; this Spring I turned the sods over three to 

 four feet around the trees, and have washed them twice with 

 potash water. I have been over them four times this season 

 to dig out and kill borers, finding some in every tree, (in some 

 as many as ten;) the last time I went through the orchard I 

 found but few. Mr. Buckminster, of the Plowman, says that 

 washing them in Potash water will kill the borers. I have 

 washed mine this year and know that it has not killed them. 

 But it has blistered my trees and made them look bad, if it 

 has not injured them. He may say that the water was tco 

 strong, but I followed his directions, viz., one pound to a pail 

 full of water. Yours with respect, 



JOHN BROOKS, Jr. 



Joseph Smith's Statement. 

 The orchard I offer for premium, contains one hundred 

 trees, in one field, in rows each way, 26 feet between the 

 rows. The trees have been set out about 25 years, and own- 

 ed by myself 7 years. The trees have all been grafted since 

 they were set out, with the following varieties : — Baldwins, 



