g3 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



I thought swamp muck was excellent for mulching trees, and I put 

 in four ox-cart loads between each four in the square. The result 

 was. I did not get good Baldwins for three jears. The apples 

 wouldn't stay on the tree ; the}' were rough. I had to plow it and 

 put in pigs. Finally I put on a dressing of leached ashes, and now 

 the}' Ijear. To be sure my trees interlace, but the}' are growing 

 taller and no limbs die. I thought if I could obtain in twenty years, 

 with trees twenty feet apart, the same profit from a tree that the 

 trees forty feet apart would give in fort}^ years, I had better take 

 the close setting. These trees being close, the wind does not affect 

 them. 



Mr. Gardiner. In Gardiner there is a small orchard of very 

 fine trees, set from fifteen to eighteen feet apart. The result is, that 

 the outside trees bear large crops and the inner ones no apples at 

 all. They are all interlaced and cannot get light and air, and do 

 not bear. I asked the proprietor why he didn't cut down every 

 other tree. Ha said they were so fine he couldn't make up his mind 

 to do it. 



THE SIZE OF BARRELS FOR APPLES. 



Mr. GiLMAX. I would like to inquire of Mr. Pope or Mr. Ather- 

 ton, in respect to the size of the barrels in which apples are packed 

 for shipment in Michigan and Western New York. How do they 

 compare with ordinary flour barrels ? 



IMr. Pope. I am informed that the regular apple barrel of New 

 York holds two and one-half bushels of the fruit, and that in Mich- 

 igan and New York the fruit is put in new barrels made on purpose, 

 costing about thirty-five cents each. 



Mr. GioiAN. It is an important question, when we consider the 

 magnitude of the crop of apples in this State as it is destined to be 

 in the future, What should be the size of our barrels? If we go 

 into the market with a peck more of apples in a barrel than they do 

 in Michigan and New York, we are put at a disadvantage. 



Mr. GiLMAN, referring to the paper of Mr. Prince, inquired with 

 respect to the 



STORAGE OF FRUIT. 



Did I understand Mr. Prince to say that he put apples in bulk 

 and allowed them to lay in bulk from the time of harvesting until 



