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winters for from a quarter to half a century. I don't believe 

 in that talk about the excessive tenderness of the Baldwin. It is 

 too valuable a tree to allow us to say such a thing. 



Mr. Atiikuton. Mr. Sharp's practice of taking up trees would 

 not be practicable for us to follow, he can do it perhaps. And then 

 the matter of setting the trees close together. I think the}' have an 

 object in view, and put them nearer together for protection and to 

 get all the fruit they can while the trees are young. He told me 

 that he sometimes sent a hundred thousand trees to the West ; he 

 has a very large, deep cellar, and so he takes his trees up in the fall 

 and carries them in. These trees, where tlie side branches were 

 trimmed otf, were not more than two years old, so when thev are 

 four or five years old the tops are all there. He had the Mackintosh 

 Red, the Duchess, and other varieties, but no Baldwins or Rhode 

 Island Greenings. 



Mr. Gardiner. There is one point in the paper which has not 

 been touched upon, and that is in relation to the condition the trees 

 are in when they are brought here. I think it was a very great 

 loss to the State when Mr. ¥j. K. Whitney' gave up the nursery 

 business. I had a hundred trees from him at one time, and I don't 

 believe that ever in this State there was a better lot of trees sent 

 out. There was not a root broken or cut ; every root the trees ever 

 had was on them. They came in the most perfect order and were 

 set out in a ver}' unfavorable season, and all but two grew. 



The reason why so many of the western trees fail to live is 

 because the}' are brought here in bundles, kept in the open air, and 

 exposed and dried for weeks ; therefore, three-fourths of them die. 



Mr. Briogs. I believe a great deal depends on the selection of 

 apple seeds, whether you get them from the cider mill or whether 

 you save them from good seedling apples. 



Mr. Gardiner. I would save them from the seedling apples. 



Mr. Briggs. I think that is correct, from my experience. I 

 planted a little nursery a year ago last fall, and had seeds enough 

 saved from good apples, but, fearing there were not quite enough, 

 I went to the cider mill and got a few bushels of pomace, and those 

 trees that grew from the selected seeds were twice or three times as 

 large as those that grew from the seeds from the pomace. 



In regard to trimming the trees, a man told me that the first class 

 trees from the New York nurseries are trees that are stripped of the 

 leaves as fast as they appear, and the trees that have the spurs 



