206 Wool Waste as a Manure. 



Size, large, about three and a half inches long, and two 

 and a half in diameter : Form, obtuse pyramidal, full at the 

 crown, blunt at the stem, and enlarged on one side : Skih, 

 fair, smooth, yellowish green, becoming lemon yellow when 

 mature, beautifully mottled and clouded with pale red in the 

 sun, somewhat russeted around the crown, and regularly 

 covered with very large russet specks : Stem, rather short, 

 about half an inch long, stout, little knobby, straight, and 

 obliquely inserted in a scarcely perceptible cavity, surrounded 

 with knobby projections : Eye, medium size, partially closed, 

 and slightly depressed in a broad shallow basin ; segments of 

 the calyx, very short : Flesh, yellowish white, rather fine, 

 melting, buttery and juicy : Flavor, rich, sugary, perfumed, 

 and excellent : Core, large : Seeds, medium size, obovate, 

 broad. Ripe in September, and keeps some time. 



Art. III. Wool Waste as a Manure. In a series of Con- 

 versational Meetings by the members of the Massachusetts 

 Horticultural Society. 



Saturday, March 5, 1853. The President in the chair. 

 The meeting not being a very full one, the discussion of the 

 value of wool waste from factories was taken up at the sug- 

 gestion of Mr. Dickerman. 



Mr. Breck stated that he had had but little experience 

 with it himself, but he had been informed by Mr. Wright of 

 Lowell, that it was a valuable manure. Formerly, the large 

 quantities made at the factories there were thrown into the 

 river, but the people complained of this, and to obviate this 

 he carried it away and put it upon his farm, where he found 

 it highly beneficial to such crops as he tried with it. Sub- 

 sequently, it became so valuable that they made a charge for it. 

 He pronounced it particularly valuable for potatoes and grass. 

 Mr. Breck had forgotten how he used it, but he thought it 

 was as a compost with other substances. 



