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experience in growing orchards find fi'iiit, and who has obtained 

 Irnit trees from different localities. 



Bennoch. Thousands of trees have been brought into Penobscot 

 county, and I will venture to say that ver^' few of them are in a 

 flourishing condition. I think our own trees are best. I don't 

 believe in buying trees of foreign growers. 



The President. A few years ago I set out about a hundred trees 

 which were raised by Mr. E. K. Whitney of Harrison. Never in 

 ray experience (and I have set a great man}' trees, of all sorts) have 

 I seen so fine trees as he sent me. Of the whole number of trees 

 there was not a root broken or cut. The roots were coiled up and 

 packed in moss, and when the trees arrived the}' were all ready for 

 planting. How he managed to take them up and pack them so 

 skilfully I cannot understand. Ever}' one of them lived ; which I 

 attribute to the great care with which they were raised and handled. 

 I am sorry to say Mr. Whitney has gone out of the business. 

 I have sometimes ordered trees of agents, and must confess that I 

 have not saved one in ten of them. 



Ml'. Dow. I think the great trouble is that generally trees are 

 not taken up and packed properly. I have bought a great many 

 which have come in bad condition. Many of the roots were cutoff. 

 I am now trying Maine trees and they are doing well. 



Capt. F. C. Jordan, Brunswick. I have set western trees and 

 thought they were as good as Maine trees, but am now satisfied they 

 are not. I had fifty from INIr. Alfred Smith of Monmouth, mostly 

 Baldwins, several years ago ; they are all alive and have grown well. 

 I had fifty more from Mr. AVhitney of Harrison, the same year ; 

 they ai-e all alive. I found all good roots. 01 all the trees T have 

 had from Maine, I have never lost one. Of the western trees, last 

 winter and last summer, I lost twelve of the finest trees I had. Two 

 Nonesuch died in the winter and the rest are all dying. I had 

 twenty-five Baldwins from abroad, the best part of them died last 

 spring and summer. That looks as if something was the matter 

 with western trees, because they are on the same piece of ground, 

 received the same treatment and were set about the same time. 1 

 set them all out myself and know they were carefully set out; they 

 are of the same va,rieties. I shall not buy any more New York 

 trees. 1 think Maine is the right place for us to get trees. 



S. F. Strout, AVest Falmouth. I am a new beginner. Last 

 spring, somebody visited me with a picture book, and I subscribed 



