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take it that most of oar fruit growers have reached that ; there are 

 gentlemen in this house who need no instruction as to the mode of 

 packing fruit, but the process that has obtained among the best 

 orchardists that I know of in New England, is, in the first place to 

 pick the fruit from the tree by the human hand, and then put the 

 stem downward in the bottom of the l)arrel, in other words, " face 

 the barrel" as fruit packers term it, then to fill the barrel about half 

 full, then give it a gentle shaking, not enough to injure the fruit, 

 then fell the barrel and let the apples come a little distance, say half 

 an inch, above where the head of the barrel fits into the staves, 

 then put the head over the fruit and press it down into its proper 

 position. To be sure this process will slightl}* jam the fruit next to 

 the head, but a barrel thus packed will bear to be carried to New 

 York or Liverpool, and this is the only safe and reliable way to pre- 

 vent apples from becoming bruised when in transit. 



I will only saj' to the 3'ouuger portion of this audience, and in 

 this State, who are about to enter upon the practice of orcharding, 

 m}' advice to j^ou is, begin with the pruning knife early, and do not be 

 afraid of the use of it, but open up the centre of the tree to the sun, 

 in order to have good fruit. 



Mr. Atherton, referring to the paper of Mr. Atkins, on the cod- 

 ling moth, said : The paper just read is a most interesting one to 

 me, and I hope m}* enthusiastic friend will continue these investiga- 

 tions until he shall arrive at something more definite with regard to 

 the time when the codling moth ]a3-s its eggs, so that if anj- remedy 

 can be applied at that time, it may be done. I have understood 

 that sprinkling apple trees with Paris Green has proved ver}' suc- 

 cessful, but I don't remember as it was stated at what time it was 

 applied, whether in autumn or when the apples were small. It is a 

 well known fact that in the southern and middle states, they fre- 

 quently have two broods of the apple worms, while in this latitude 

 we seldom have but one. It was my observation last season, (it 

 was an unusual year for us), that we had two broods. I took some 

 apples from a tree in November and found a number of ver}' small 

 worms, half an inch in length, and I was convinced that we had two 

 broods of them. Another thing also convinced me of this ; while 

 examining my trees for the apple tree borer, in June, I carried a 

 small sharp trowel to scrape the trunks of the trees and scraped out 

 a great many of the apple worms, some of them very small. Find- 

 ing them in June and November led me to believe that we might 



