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that this line is the northern limit to successful fruit culture as at 

 present developed, varied of course by the positions of the northern 

 counties and the elevation of the land above the sea level. 



The 45th degree of latitude runs through the lower portion of No. 

 4, Oxford County, jnst grazing the northern boundary of LakeCup- 

 suptic ; in Franklin County through the northern portion of Range- 

 ley, Dallas, centre of Plantation No. 1, and the northern portion of 

 Mt. Abraham Township and Kingtiekl ; in Somerset County through 

 Lexington, Concord, Bingham, Brighton, Harmony- and Ripley ; in 

 Penobscot County through Dexter, Garland, Charleston, Corinth, 

 Hudson, Alton and Argyle, where it strikes the Penobscot River 

 about fourteen and a half miles above Bangor ; tlien crossing through 

 Milford and Greenfield it strikes and passes through the upper un- 

 settled portion of Hancock County, and thence on through unsettled 

 portions of Washington County when it passes through Crawford, 

 Cooper, Meddybemps, Charlotte, Pembroke, and winds up on the 

 eastern border in Perry. Now a large part of Washington County 

 is but a howling wilderness, the settled portions including those 

 towns bordering on the Atlantic, Passamaquodd}^ Bay and the St, 

 Croix River. 



In Charlotte the Baldwin is grown to only a limited extent, while 

 nearl}' every other variety known to pomologists is successfully 

 grown with the exception of Williams' Favorite, King Sweeting, 

 Primate, King and Porter, which are considered tender. Pears also 

 succeed well, being tardy onl\- in bearing. Some orchardists have 

 tried the Baldwin to the extent of half a dozen trees or more 

 and some pronounce it a good bearer while others call it a poor 

 bearer. The experience of Mr. Henr}- A. Sprague has been that 

 young trees bear but thinly, owing, as he thinks, to winter killing of 

 the buds, 



I wish to say in this connection, that fruit is successfully grown 

 seventy-five miles north of Charlotte in Aroostook County at Houlton, 

 ten miles north of 46 degrees latitude. Furthermore, that when 

 Washington County becomes more settled and the farmers turn their 

 attention more directly to agriculture and less to lumbering and fish- 

 ing, there will be no climatic reason why fruit culture ma}- not be a 

 successful business in any portion thereof. 



In Hancock County fruit culture is not pursued to any extent to 

 which it is in counties west of the Penobscot. In favorable seasons 

 they raise a small surplus for export but occasionally not enough for 



