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fovd Count}'. Other fruits, like pears, plums and grapes, are grown, 



but I think pears are not a success with us. Climate has no ill 



effect on fruit growing here. Our soils in this count}' are mostly 



gravelly loam and what would be called rough, rocky, uneven land. 



It is natural fruit land ; still we need fertilization, and have got to 



have it in order to get the best results from the orchard. We have 



here, as everywhere else in Maine, too many varieties, and man}' 



orchardists are now grafting over into Baldwins. 



C. H. George. 

 Hebron. 



I have over seventy different kinds of apples, but the McLellan 

 stands at the head, as far as beauty and profit are concerned. The 

 trees are very hardy, good growers, form a very handsome top, bear 

 abundant crops of smooth, sizeable, handsome apples, free from 

 black blotches and other defects that damage the apple crop. I have 

 an orchard set nine years ago last fall, in which there are forty-five 

 McLellans. Last fall I gathered from those trees seventy barrels of 

 nice apples. The orchard was set on new ground, which is a rocky 

 side hill, cants to the southeast, and has been pastured with sheep 

 ever since they were set. I do not know their origin, but had the 

 scions of Thomas Wright of Strong, eighteen or twenty years ago, 

 for Nodlieads. I have had them on exhibition at the fairs for sev- 

 eral years. They always attract considerable attention, and I haA'e 

 never seen them exhibited by any one else. 



The Baldwin is the leading apple here and succeeds well on high 

 land, but often fails on low or river land. The common varieties of 

 apples can be grown successfully as far north as the towns of Weld, 

 Temple, Phillips, but fail to do well farther north, though some of 

 the iron-clad varieties have been grown with fair success at Range- 

 ley, which is about forty miles farther north. We succeed in grow- 

 ing pears, plums, cherries, grapes, and the various kinds of small 

 fruits, though they do not do as well here as they do farther south. 

 I think climate affects our fruit crop more than the soil, though the 

 climate is as uneven as our section of country is ; the temperature 

 varies from ten to twenty degrees within a few miles. Orchards do 

 best that are well elevated, much better than on low land. 



J. J. TOWLE. 



South Carthage. 



