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Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1872
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96 from one and a half inches below the surface, several inches down 5 and owing to the season being so dry, they could not repair the injury. White Ash two feet high were girdled in the same manner. In the case of the Austrian and Scotch Pines, we attribute it mostly to the dryness of the season in losing so many. The Seoth Pine were never transplanted before, which we think was one cause of so many dying. Chestnuts were injured somewhat by the grub. "E.» The Experimental Apple Orchard. The Experimental Apple Orchard was planted to corn, and kept well cultivated. The trees made an average growth of two and a half feet. The following varieties bore a few apples : Seedling of the Bed Siberian Crab ; very fine specimen, as large as the Transcend ant 5 very dark red flush, in the sun; good to eat from the hand. This tree bore a few apples last year. Cooper's Early White bore two apples; Eambo, one $ both proving true to name. Insects were not quite so numerous in the orchards as last year. We had a few of the Tent and Datana Ministra Caterpillars. The Hammond leaf-tier was not so numerous as last season. We planted, in orchard, 42 varieties of apple trees—two of each variety, received from Hon. W. C. Elagg, Alton, Illinois, as a donation. We planted every tenth row througd the orchard, north and south, with Norway Spruce fifteen to eighteen inches, two feet apart, designing to thin out eight feet when necessary. VARIETIES OF APPLES IK EXPERIMENTAL ORCHARD. No. Name. Aberdeen Abraham Adams Aisles Alabama Pippin Alleis Alleis, Sweet Alleghany Spot Alleghany, Nickajack Alexander Alluae Alphian Amelia American Beauty American Golden Pippin American Maygold American Nonpariel American Pippin American Summer Pearmain. American Summer Pippin Amos Jackson Origin. Season. Pennsylvania .. Pennsylvania.. Pennsylvania.. Pennsylvania.. North Carolina. Massachusetts.. Maryland North Carolina . Kentucky Europe Massachusetts.. October and November.. October and December .. January and April January and February... December and April November and February. November August Winter Pennsylvania.
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