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dition to be siiowu. Mr. Gooclale in extending this invitation 

 made these remarks : '-Before the commencement of the regular 

 exercises of the afternoon I desire to offer a single suggestion to 

 the students present. Mr. Chamberlain has invited you to visit 

 his grounds, and you will doul^tless embrace some opportunity to 

 do so." 



Now there is a wide difference between barely looking at objects, 

 and carefully observing them. The one may be of little profit ; the 

 other may be highly instructive. If you notice with care you will 

 see many trees, shrubs and plants which are not indigenous to this 

 section and which are rarely grown here ; you will find several nut- 

 bearing trees as the hickory and chestnut, several rare kinds of 

 oaks, black walnut and various others ; and you can learn the vari- 

 ous degrees of care for each under the conditions of soil, climate, 

 etc. And so with the fruits ; I was forcibly struck with what I 

 there learned regarding grapes. This place is 100 to 150 miles 

 north of the place where 1 reside, and you would naturally expect 

 to find the fruit later ; but such I find is not the case, but the con- 

 trary." That shows something in regard to our climate, and Mr. 

 Good ale is a man who never speaks at random. 



DISCUSSION. 



Ques. Will you please tell us which varieties do the best here? 



Ans. I simply claim that we do grow all the standard apples, 

 possibly excepting the Baldwin and possibly the Northern Spy, 

 that are grown in the State. And I think there is no difficulty 

 with the Northern Spy, if we properly enrich the ground ; and pos- 

 sibly not with the Baldwin, though I do think we are out of the 

 Baldwin region. We grow all the fall varieties, and we can grow 

 as good Nodheads and Hubbardstons as I have seen grown under 

 the sun ; as good Porters, Somersets and Greenings, including 

 Rhode Island Greenings. 



Some years ago Brother Chamberlain introduced here the Hurl- 

 but. I got a tree, supposing it to be a good apple, because I knew 

 Brother Chamberlain would never adopt anything unless he knew 

 all there was to be known about it at the time. 1 liked the growth 

 of the tree exceedingly well ; and I can say that so far as I know 

 it is one of the most productive apples we grow. It is an apple 

 that is salable and the quality is good. There is only one fault, it 

 must go before January or there will be considerable loss. It is 

 about with the Nonsuch. We have now an apple, the Milding, 



