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Mr. Hall of Auburn, has quite an extensive stock of very 

 good fruit trees on hand. I regret much that I am obliged to 

 report his nursery without any information concerning it, 

 although my circular was issued in a Lewiston paper, and it 

 seems to me that he ought to have reported. 



Mrs. S. E. West of West Farmington, is engaged in the 

 f)ropagation of bull)s, plants, &c., for sale; not very exten- 

 sively, but sufficient to supply a limited demand. 



S. T. Whittier, Athens, residence in Cornville, 5,000 apple 

 trees. 



Moses Gilman, Sangerville, reports a stock of apple trees, 

 without giving the number on hand or number ready for sale. 



Daniel Partridge of Sandy Point, reports his address to me 

 as a grower of plants, &c. 



H. B. Williams, South China, reports a stock of 3,000 seed- 

 ling apple trees, also an older nursery, from which he is 

 making sales annually. Does not report the number. 



These are the rej)orts which have been received, and from 

 them in figuring up I find they amount to 250,000 trees, in 

 round numbers ; from 100,000 to 150,000 of which are ready 

 for market, consisting largely of seedling trees, but many 

 grafted trees. I have knowledge of a large number of others, 

 from whom no returns have been received, and I have no 

 definite knowledge as to the number of trees under cultiva- 

 tion. 



Mr. Smith of Monmouth. I did not report my trees, from 

 the fact that you [the President] was there, and I showed 

 them to you. We have about 3,000 seedling apple trees, and 

 some grafted, and about 500 pear trees ; besides grape vines 

 and small fruits- 



The Presidext. Mr. Smith is here to report for himself. 

 I knew he would be here, and consequently said nothing about 

 his trees. There are many nurseries throughout the State, of 

 which I have no definite knowledge. There is quite an ex- 

 tensive nursery at Mechanic Falls, which we do not care to 

 add to our list. 



Question. Why ? 



