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Mr. Pope. We have one tree of this variety cultivated as highly 

 as the Northern Spy, or the Dean Apple, or Franklin Sweet, and 

 we don't get a peck of fruit from it a year, though it is large 

 enough to bear two barrels. 



Mr. Taylor. I have raised the apple for fifty years, and I have 

 never considered it a profitable variety to raise. The tree grows 

 pretty well, but the leaves almost invariably look as though they 

 were just going to die ; small, curled and shrivelled. And the 

 fruit on the tree is very scattering I have not recommended it 

 for general cultivation, although, in my opinion no better eating 

 apple can be produced. 



Mr. Prince. The shrivelling up of the leaves is one of the pecu- 

 liarities of the tree. 



Roxhury Russet. Mr. Woodward of Winthrop. Don't think it 

 is worth cultivating. And yet, three miles from my place there 

 are those who think it the best apple to raise there is. 



Mr. Gilbert. It is so all over the State. 



Mr. Smith. I have made more money raising the Roxbury Russet 

 than I ever did by raising the Baldwin. 



Mr. Gilbert. I believe the Poughkeepsie Russet can be made 

 to -take the place of the Roxbury Russet, where the latter cannot 

 be grown. In soils adapted to the Roxbury Russet it is a profit- 

 able apple. 



Mr. Prince. It is my opinion that in a deep, moist soil, it is a 

 profitable apple. 



Somerset. Mr, Gilbert. Nothing before it in its season, taking 

 its appearance and quality into consideration, 



Mr. Woodward. I should not recommend it for a market apple, 

 but for family use I think very highly of it. It ripens gradually. 



Mr. McLaughlin. A man don't want more than one or two 

 trees of it. 



Mr. Woodward. No. They keep dropping off, and at last you 

 don't have any. My tree has borne every year. Don't think it 

 bears so well as the Baldwin. 



Mr. McLaughlin. From what I know of it, I think it a regular 

 bearer, and a good family apple ; but you cannot pick a great 

 quantity of them at any one time. 



Sidney Sweeting. Mr. Gilbert, A native of the town of Sidney, 



Mr. Taylor. My father t^iok the first scion from that tree 65 

 years ago, and it was called the King of Sweetings. It is quite a 

 large apple, slightly oblong, yellow, and very nice indeed. It is 



