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fruits also to offer. lie would continue, therefore, by naming the 

 apples. 



The first was the 



Porter Jipfjle. — Mr. Hancock saitl the Porter apple bore with him 

 for the first time this season, and he found the fruit very poor and dry. 



Mr. McIntosh said that in Ohio it was one of the best of apples. 



Mr. HovEY had known the Porter for twenty years, and had never 

 found it other than very good. He had had it from dwarf trees, and 

 found it at the first bearing as good as he ever knew it ; but as a 

 general thing it was best not to judge of any fiuit by the first crop. 

 The Porter was best in September. 



Col. Little introduced it on the Penobscot twenty-one years ago, 

 and it was universally considered in Maine as one of the best apples 

 grown in the state. 



Mr. Hancock regarded it as a second-rate grower, both in the nur- 

 sery and on large trees. 



Mr. Miller, of Carlisle, had always found it very vigorous, up- 

 right and good. He suspected that Mr. Hancock's trees must be 

 spurious. 



Mr. French had fixiited it thirty-one years, and always found it 

 excellent. 



The Porter Apple was adopted. 



Huhbardston Jfonsuch Apple. — Col. Hodge said that with liim it 

 proved very fine, and he should rank it No. 1. 



Mr. French remarked that it had not proved very thrifty with 

 him, but it was a very popular apple, and cultivators could not do 

 without it. 



Mr. Hamilton, of Orange county, N. Y., said that with him it 

 was a better grower than the Porter, and w^as a handsome, straight, 

 thrifty tree. 



Mr. HovEY observed that it was quite as good and strong a grower 

 as the Porter, and had a very handsome head. It made as much 

 wood in three years, a's the Baldwin in two. It was first introduced 

 into Newton, Mass., several years ago, by Capt. Hyde, who found it 

 whilst on a visit to Hubbardston, but could not learn whence it came. 

 He brought down the scions in potatoes, and singularly enough they 

 flourished. From these scions, thus brought to Newton, all the trees 

 of this variety m the eastern part of New-England came. If kept 



