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use, let him ascertain which of half a dozen standai'd sorts suit his 

 soil and location best, and then plant at least nine-tenths of his trees 

 with this. 



1 wish to sa3' in concluding these few remarks that our Society 

 embraces a large number of subjects, and I have bareh' alluded to 

 one or two, but you will soon have the pleasure of hearing interest- 

 ing papers and discussions upon many of them, which I feel confi- 

 dent will be practical and of lasting benefit to us all. 



Following the deliveiy of his address, the President read an 

 original paper conti'ibuted by Dr. T. H. Hoskins of Newport, Vt., 

 on " Hardy "Winter Apples." an article then recentU' written by 

 himself for publication on "Nomenclature of Russets," and an 

 article on the same subject by Dr. Hoskins. Mr. Gardiner's article 

 was originally published in the Hojiie Farm, and was copied b}* Dr. 

 Hoskins, with comments, in the Verinont Watchman; and the notes 

 by Dr. H., here given, were published in the Inst named pajjer in 

 pursuance of the sul)ject ; all of which are here inserted in their 

 order. 



HARDY WINTER APPLES. 



BY DR. T. H. HOSKINS. 



The Baldwin is the great market apple for winter in New Eng- 

 land, and has held that position for so long a time that it must be a 

 wonderful fruit that will replace it in the regard and confidence of 

 growers and consumers. It is quite as hard to dethrone a popular 

 fruit as to reA'olutionize a popular government ; and as with govern- 

 ments, so it will be with fruits, they must themselves deteriorate far 

 before the people will begin to consider the question of dispensing 

 with them. 



But we cannot, even in behalf of our greatest favorites, prevail to 

 reverse the fiat of nature when she cries, " thus far, but no farther I" 

 It must be conceded that the l>ald\viii jipple is a fruit of soutiioni 

 New England only, and that moi'e than half of our area has a 

 climate in which that apple can never be grown with profit, if even 

 at all. 



Unfortunately, not only the Baldwin, but all the other standard 

 and mnrketal)le winter apples of the .country, partake, more or less, 

 of this intolerance of severe winter temperature. The Hhode Island 

 Greening and the Roxbury Russet are scarcely at all hardier than 

 the Baldwin, and the Northern Sp}' only a little hardier than these. 



