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proper for this Society to recommend Roxbury Russets for 

 all parts of the State of Maine. The}^ would not do well. I 

 presented to-day a plate of Roxhury Russets that grew on 

 this same soil in an old orchard, perhaps 75 years old, and 

 more. It had been cropped year after year with grass and 

 hardly any dressing carried back, and the trees have borne 

 year after year until the orchard was about starved to death. 

 There was one part of it that had received a little better care 

 than the rest. I plowed it up and hauled on dressing, and 

 those old trees revived and started into life almost instantly. 



Mr. Smith. INIy experience has been, that we can't get 

 sometJdng out oinotJiinq, and there must be something to get 

 an apple from. I raised apples in this town sometime ago, on 

 soil similar to that which has been spoken of. There was iron 

 in it to a consideral)le extent. I removed from Winthrop to 

 Monmouth. Found an orchard there well grafted, but in a 

 sad condition. I have told this a number of times. Well, I 

 began to bi-ing it up, and since that time I have raised apples 

 there as handsome as any of these on exhibition, Aveighing 

 nine ounces. It is a granite soil. What I was going to say 

 is, tljat I think russets may be grown on most any soil, if you 

 put in the proper elements. I tind no trouble in raising good 

 russets in INIonmouth, and I think othei's can do the same. 



Mr. Howard. I was in conversation with INIr. Longfellow 

 sometime since, and I think he told me he could raise Rox- 

 bury Russets easier than he could Baldwins. Is that the case? 



Mr. Longfellow. Yes, sir. 



The President. We are admonished to take up other 

 topics. Still, I think we have established this fact in the dis- 

 cussion, although briefly considered, that there is a necessity 

 for a greater attention in the direction of fertility if we would 

 produce bountiful crops. In regard to the different methods, 

 we have not had such a variety of opinion as might have been 

 desired. 



The subject of the Russian apple business, and the paper 

 promised us by Mr. Fernald of Harrison, has been allowed to 

 lay upon the table until the present time. I notice Mr. Fer- 



