STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY, 59 



Joseph Taylor, of Belgrade : 



I do not wish to be foremost in this matter, but if there are a 

 few moments for rae, I will avail myself of them. I have been in 

 the habit, for many years, of raising fruit trees, and have had no 

 experience in regard to foreign trees, because of having so good 

 success with those of my own raising. I have seen, however, in 

 my own neigborhood, the result of planting out foreign trees, and 

 I have almost invariably found that it has been a failure. It is 

 true, as has been said by Mr. Goodale, that it is sometimes the 

 case that trees do succeed, when brought from a distance and 

 planted here. But I have thought, and believe, from actual expe- 

 rience, that our own fruit trees are the most appropriate, and best 

 adapted to our climate and soil. 



While I was a boy, my father planted out several nurseries, and 

 from those nurseries his children have availed themselves of much 

 fruit. I remember that he planted a nursery, and quite early, after 

 it came to suitable size, he set it out into orchards, and grafted 

 into the tops of the trees after they had grown six or eight years, 

 and they succeeded well. During my early years he planted out 

 three nurseries, and those trees are now in a vigorous bearing 

 condition ; and from this fact I believe that we may raise our own 

 trees here. I believe that we can raise better trees here than we 

 can get from abroad. 



I have let my trees remain in the nursery four or five years, and 

 then set them out in my orchard, letting them grow a year or two 

 more, and then grafting them in the tops — in the limbs, and I 

 have succeeded in raising better apple trees in that way than by 

 grafting them in the nursery. The body of the tree, should have 

 a sufficient growth, so that when grafted, the stock will be firm, 

 and well rooted in the ground. I have one or two Baldwin trees 

 that I grafted when they were quite young, but the hard winters 

 have almost entirely killed the tops, and whenever I cut off a 

 limb, the wood is found to be black. 



Hon. RuFus Prince, of Turner, being called upon by the Presi- 

 dent, said : 



I do not know that I have had enough experience in cultivating 

 trees grown in other States, to give any opinion upon the subject. 

 1 have grown ,my own trees, but to say that it is better to raise 

 our own trees, or that New York trees do not succeed, I cannot, 

 I have a few New York trees which I purchased about fifteen years 

 since, and I think they are as good trees as I ever had ; but they 



