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the market. I never sort except to pick out the decaj-ed ones. 

 There is no need of dumping them in a pile in bulk. I pick my 

 apples b}' hand in small baskets. I have several years lined my 

 cart body with blankets so the}- will not bruise in emptying them 

 into the cart. I take them to my cellar and put them in b}' hand, 

 and let them be until it is time to sell them. 



Mr. Nelson. With regard to wet cellars. One of our apple 

 buyers has told me that the best apples he gets are from wet cellars. 

 I had occasion, a year or two ago, to visit a farmer in Androscoggin 

 count}' who is celebrated for keeping apples. I found his cellar was 

 floored over, and 400 bushels of Baldwins in a bin. I looked through 

 the cracks of the floor and saw water underneath. He said he kept 

 water there ; and if the natural flow of the water stopped, he pumped 

 water in, but did not allow it to become stagnant. He is noted for 

 putting his Baldwins on the market in June in as good condition as 

 mine are in December. 



WESTERX TREES. 



Considerable discussion took place in respect to the merits and 

 value of western trees, as compared with those grown in this State ; 

 but without eliciting an3'thing of importance in addition to the points 

 previously settled by the Society — some of which are, that it is 

 vastly more important to inquire how a tree is grown, taken up, set 

 out and cared for, than where it is grown ; that good trees and poor 

 ones are grown both in and out of the State ; " that Maine can and 

 ought to grow her own apple trees ; " that all the good trees grown 

 in Maine find a read\' sale ; that vast quantities of trees are still 

 brought into the State from abroad; etc., etc. A question was 

 raised in regard to the most profitable 



VARIETIES FOR MARIvET. 



Mr. Child, of , said : I think no person can tell what 



variety he can do best with until he tries them. I raise n)ore 

 Baldwins than any other kind, and still I believe I can raise more 

 No. 1 Hubbardstons than of any other variet}'. I have a few Black 

 Oxfords. They grow small with me ; but a neighbor who has an 

 orchard not more than 50 rods from mine, on what people would call 

 the same soil, raises the best Black Oxfords I ever saw. What the 



