132 STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



LIXCOLN COUNTY. 



Apples, pears, plums and grapes can be successfully grown in 

 every town in Lincoln County. The Baldwin is the leading apple 

 grown. The leading varieties of apples are Red Astrachan, Early 

 Harvest, Bell's Early, Duchess of Oldenburgh, Fameuse, Graven- 

 stein, Porter, Orange Sweet, Winthrop Greening, Jewett's Fine Red, 

 Somerset, Hurlburt, Talraan Sweel, Granite Beauty, Foundling, 

 Baldwin, Rhode Island Greening, Yellow Bellflower, Northern Spy, 

 Golden Russet, Hunt Russet, English Russet, Fall Pippin, King of 

 Tompkins, Wagener, Ben Davis and many others. 



The apples and other fruit grown in the seaboard towns are much 

 smaller in size, and more backward in season, than fruit grown in 

 the interior of the State, therefore would not command as good a 

 price in Boston market ; yet fruit can be successfully and profitably 

 raised in this county. The soil is well adapted to fruit raising, and 

 the climate does not injure our trees, as the tenderest varieties are 

 perfectly hardy. I propagated more than one hundred varieties of 

 apples, and I have not lost a tree, after it had started one year, for 

 ten years. Some ten years ago I lost half a dozen nice trees one 

 winter ; since that time I have not had a tree winter killed. The 

 orchards that are situated on high land inclining east or south have 

 done the best. The cold, damp winds and fogs from the ocean, dur- 

 ing the summer months, is the reason our fruit does not attain the 

 size of the fruit grown in Kennebec and Androscoggin counties ; but 

 ^e can enrich our orchards with sea manures, such as rockweed, sea- 

 weed, mussels, kelp, etc., at a less expense than can the farmers of 

 the inland towns, and trees mulched with sea dressing are not 

 troubled with borers. For the past three years there have not been 

 but two borers discovered in my orchard. 



H. J. A. Simmons. 

 Waldoboro'. 



OXFORD COUNTY. 



I think the leading apple for Oxford County is the Baldwin. The 

 leading varieties would be named in this order : Baldwin and Rhode 

 Island Greening for winter ; and Snow, Gravenstein and Hubbards- 

 ton Nonsuch for fall. Fruit can be successful!}' grown as far north 

 as Bethel and Andover, and finally, in fact, almost anywhere in Ox- 



