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the cider mill, while the rest is packed for shipment. They are 

 placed in boxes, each of which contains one hundred of the best 

 Newtown Pippins, and at once sliipped to Liverpool. Mr. Pell's 

 fruit is as well known there as it is here, and he has adopted the 

 custom which prevails in the orange and h^non trade, viz : of selling" 

 it at auction. The sales are largely attended, and the pippins 

 from the Pelham farm are sold all over Europe. They sometimes _ 

 bring fourteen cents apiece by the box." 



This brief account of Mr. Pell's orchard is copied into this 

 report because it imparts information which may be both interest- 

 ing and useful to all who raise apples in Maine. The same intel- 

 ligence, the same practical management, the same wise use of 

 capital may produce similar results in respect to the Baldwin and 

 other varieties of the apple which may be successfully raised in 

 the State. 



Michigan, which has a latitude but little south of Maine, has a 

 flourishing State Pomological Society, which was organized in 

 1870. This society has done much the last four years to direct' 

 attention to, and encourage the more extended and systematic 

 culture of fruit and fruit trees. It has performed its beneficent 

 work by frequent exhibitions, meetings for discussion, reports of 

 committees who had been appointed to visit orchards, nurseries, 

 vineyards, gardens and farms in different parts of the State, and 

 by means of addresses and papers of great practical utility. The 

 report of its transactions for 18T2 fills a volume of 718 pages, and 

 its third annual report for 1873 is a volume of 526 pages. From 

 these volumes the following compilation is made for the Maine 

 Pomological Society : 



♦"Horticulture ennobles and civilizes. It is an art of such 

 varied character, so comprehensive, that it is enjoyed by the 

 humblest as fully as by the most exalted. It has appealed to all 

 minds ever since earth began to be subdued by man, for nature 

 herself is the artist and teacher with her ever varying landscapes, 

 her changing seasons, her growing and fading colors, lier lights 

 and shades, and tints as mutable as the summer clouds. 



Horticulture in its most extended sense, is an art of the most 

 comprehensive character. There is none other that cultivates the 

 senses and refines the mind to such a degree, and is so universal 

 in its influence. It not only compels most of the sciences to be 

 its aids, but some of the arts themselves it takes into its service. 

 Agriculture is a science, for its fujiction is to render useful and 

 profitable the earth and its products; but horticulture not only 

 does this, but it renders beautiful whatever is placed on the earth, 



'Address before the Michigan Pomological Society, September, 1872, by R. F. John- 

 stone, Secretary of State Agricultural Society. 



