20 CHARLES MASON'S STATEMENT. 



ty, Peck's Pleasant and Hubbard ston Nonsuch, 2 each, Mo- 

 ther Apple, Wagener, Yellow Belle Fleur and Seeknofurther, 

 1 each; (fall) Gravenstein 2, Foundling, Red Astrachan, 

 Gordon Royal, Williams Favorite and Shropshirevine 1 each ; 

 (sweet), Ladies Sweeting, Danvers Winter Sweet, Jersey 

 Sweeting, Autumn Sweet Bough and Early Sweet Bough 1 

 each. 



The admission of so many kinds in so small a collection 

 may not, perhaps, be readily vindicated, in a purely pruden- 

 tial point of view. Were one rearing an orchaiil for the 

 sole purpose of raising fruit for the market, he would, doubt- 

 less, best consult his interest by having all or nearly all his 

 trees Baldwins, that being an apple of approved quality and 

 always saleable, and being the tree which hererabouts is, on 

 the whole, unrivalled as a bearer. Still, this one kind does 

 not meet the demands of all seasons ; besides, that some 

 variety is always desirable. One would scarcely, but from 

 necessity, be without some good fall apple, like the Graven- 

 stein or Foundling, or the Roxbury Russett or its equivalent, 

 for the latter part of winter and spring, or good sweet apples 

 for both autumn and winter. A person, therefore, who is 

 planting an orchard from which he designs to select fruit for 

 his own use, may be indulged in some latitude in the selec- 

 tion of a larger number of kinds, of admitted excellence, 

 even at the risk that some of those kinds may be found, upon 

 trial, not to succeed well in the particular locality. 



Charles Mason. 

 Fitchburg, September 27, 1865. 



