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47 ; Greenings, 20 ; Early Williams, 6 ; Fall and Winter 

 Sweet, 8 ; and the remainder are four choice varieties. I 

 have applied different kinds of manure to the surface, which 

 has kept them in a growing and bearing condition, they hav- 

 ing produced with my other trees, 225 barrels of Winter fruit 

 the last year. 



JOSEPH SMITH. 



Addison Hubbard's Statement. 



I submit the following statement in regard to the manage- 

 ment of my orchard. 



It contains one hundred and seventy-five trees of the fol- 

 lowing varieties : Baldwin, Yellow Bellflower, Hubbardston 

 Nonesuch, Roxbury Russett, R. I. Greening, N. Y. Greening, 

 Newton Pippin, Orange Sweet, Winter Sweet, Washington 

 Sweet, Pumpkin Sweet, Porter, Foundling, Early Williams, 

 and Rindge Beauty. The soil is light, dry, and rocky. The 

 holes were dug about twenty inches deep, and wide enough 

 to receive the roots without bending them. The trees were 

 obtained from the road side, and in pasture land, &c. They 

 were set in April, one and a half rods apart, were cut off a lit- 

 tle above the ground, and grafted the same spring. The 

 ground has been cultivated about half of the time, and when 

 in grass it has been kept loose and free from grass about the 

 trunk of the trees, spreading and hoeing in a light coat of ma- 

 nure from the barn cellar each Autumn. I formerly washed 

 my trees with potash water, but for the last three years I have 

 not washed them at all. 



ADDISON HUBBARD. 



Fitchburg, Oct. 8th, 1855. 



Enoch Caldwell's Statement. 



The orchard entered by me for premium contains about one 



hundred trees, which were set out in the Autumn of 1845, in 



a dry, but loamy soil, twenty-two feet apart each way, the 



holes being four feet across at the top, and one and a half deep, 



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