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Wiscasset. The apple alluded to by Dr. True as the English 

 Nonsuch, I suppose is the Canada Red Nonsuch, (Red Canada.) 

 I think it may be profitably grown in this county. It is rather 

 small, but is of good flavor. Speaking of the Roxbury Russet, 

 wo do claim, and I think rightfully, that this section of the State 

 is the section to grow the Roxbury Russet. I have bought a few 

 apples and handled some, [Probably more than any other person 

 in the State. — Sec] and so near here as in the neighboring town 

 of Greene I don't believe anybody ever saw put up a good barrel 

 of Roxbury Russets, but for Baldwins they can't be beat. On 

 the east of the Kennebec, too, it is hard work, generally speaking, 

 to raise good Roxbury Russets, but here we raise what we call 

 good ones. They are very good for shipping. Right here I may 

 say that it seems to me that we ought to raise the apple that will 

 fill and satisfy the market. Of course we want to raise various 

 kinds for our own use, and perhaps we ought to raise a few more 

 kinds than we want for the market. We want to raise but few 

 kinds for market. A gentleman said to me that the market calls 

 for five barrels of Baldwins to one of every other kind. I think 

 it is so. So the Baldwin is really the apple to grow for money. 

 I think the Baldwin and the Roxbury Russet are the most profit- 

 able apples for us to raise. I had good success with my trees 

 last year. I didn't allow the caterpillars to eat them up, and I 

 got fifty or sixty barrels where my neighbors had none ; and I 

 expect some next year, 



Mr. Alfred Smith of Monmouth. Allusion has been made to 

 the Roxbury Russet. I have a kvf of them. I am considerable 

 of an old man, and I have raised that fruit from my boyhood. It 

 seems to be the prevalent opinion that it cannot be raised any- 

 where but in Monmouth. I have come to a different conclusion, 

 but I may be mistaken. It needs high culture anywhere, and 

 with that you get good fruit yearly. Without it you cannot ex- 

 pect it to succeed anywhere. As to the Baldwin, it will not bear 

 high culture on low lands. On our high lands it does well, but it 

 will winter-kill if driven hard. I have nothing against the fruit, 

 but I have lost more money in undertaking to raise it than with 

 any other kind. As for the Russets, in Winthrop I had an orchard 

 of four acres. The outside rows were well manured naturally, 

 from the fact that the sheep used to lie under them. These trees 

 produced beautiful "golden" Russets, — as the neighbors called 

 them, — while those in the centre of the orchard bore very inferior 



