. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . the treesabout 20 years old, which bore 400 barrels in1S79, selling for $Soo. In 1878 he had 500barrels, but that beings an abundant year, theysold lower. He top-dresses with manure, seedsdown and turns in sheep to destroy the codlingworm. J. E. & II. Steele, brothers, have over30 acres of orchard. J. W. Hopson owns the oldoriginal Heman Chapin orchard, in which theNorthern Spy originated, and Nortons Melonwas grown there after bemg brought from theEast. The tree of Northern Spy died someyears ago, but

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. The Illustrated annual register of rural affairs and cultivator almanac for the year .. . the treesabout 20 years old, which bore 400 barrels in1S79, selling for $Soo. In 1878 he had 500barrels, but that beings an abundant year, theysold lower. He top-dresses with manure, seedsdown and turns in sheep to destroy the codlingworm. J. E. & II. Steele, brothers, have over30 acres of orchard. J. W. Hopson owns the oldoriginal Heman Chapin orchard, in which theNorthern Spy originated, and Nortons Melonwas grown there after bemg brought from theEast. The tree of Northern Spy died someyears ago, but the Early Joe was loaded with finefruit, and a portion of the Melon was growingVv^.-i^-j:!.—A Nhiety-Vear-Old and bearing. The trunks of each of theseApple Tree. measured 15 inches in diameter, but some other larger growers measured 27 inches. More than half the old trees remain,some growing and bearing with vigor, the age of the trees from seedbeing 90 years. The annexed cut (fig. 372) represents one of these oldtrees, a few of which, however, have more vigor. Oliver Chapin, the.

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