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hangs in winter, the table lamp in summer not being needed. I have 

 seen a simple design of a saucer filled with small, choice flowers, 

 placed on a corner bracket, that was very prett3\ 



Mr. BoARDMAN. I will just say a word about flowers in the guest 

 chamber. Nothing is more pretty or appropriate than to place a 

 vase or saucer of flowers in the chamber where 3'our guest, when 

 you have one, is to pass the night. It is an evidence of thoughtful 

 appreciation, of welcome and good cheer, quite as positive and as 

 lasting in its effects, (showing j-our gladness at seeing your friends), 

 as much as it is to set a good dinner before them. The^^ speak a 

 welcome quite as hearty as the words, "I am glad to see you." Ar- 

 range a little bouquet for A'onr guest chamber, and see if it don't 

 bear good results. 



Mr. Solon Chase. You are in one of the best apple towns in the 

 State, and if you come here next summer 30U will find these hills 

 covered with trees full of ripe and delicious fruit. In our own dis- 

 trict we have a 1500-barrel orchard which represents the growth of 

 thirty 3'ears. When I was a boy we raised apples and we began to 

 eat them in the blow and ate them all the rest of the time. There 

 is nothing so good for an apple as to eat it. We can't raise apples 

 enough for our own people. There is no better apple in the world 

 than the Baldwin, but you have to raise them in the proper localities. 

 With me the Northern Sp}^ is a better apple than the Baldwin. 



Mr. Nelson. I can talk a great deal better in my orchard than I 

 can here, I have been somewhat engaged in growing Nodheacls. 

 There is only one trouble, it has no foreign market. The time is not 

 far distant when there will be an over-production of fruit. In Bos- 

 ton there is more demand for the Ben Davis than for any other 

 variety. One thought in regard to the naming of fruit, I remem- 

 ber some apples that I took to Brunswick which I thought were 

 Pippins, and when the committee reported, the}' called them Gloria 

 Mundi, Soon after a man came up and looked at them a moment 

 and exclaimed, "Those ain't Gloria Mundi, the}" are Pippins." Now 

 how shall I enter that apple at the next State fair — as a Gloria 

 Mundi, a Pippin, or as a Gloria Mundi Pippin? 



Mr. Atherton. There is one question in fruit raising which I 

 would like to have discussed. What shall we do with our cider 

 apples? I had three hundred bushels this \'ear and could not sell 

 them at enough to pay the cost of picking and carting. My only 

 alternative was to feed them out or to make them into cider, I decided 



