1 H) American Horticulturaf tSocieft/. 



Suppose he has money, grit and nuiscle left to try again, and he i)lant5 

 only one or two of the niost proHUiblo iron dads that have stood all tests. 

 After eight years of care and culture they promise an abundant harvest, the- 

 gouger or apple curculio has taken note of all this, and from the time the 

 fruit is the size of a pea he has been judiciously thinning, and instead of 

 5,000 bushels from the 1,000 trees he gets just eighty bushels of marketable 

 fruit. 



This is no overdrawn picture. One of our most honored horticulturists ( f 

 Wisconsin has an orchard of 500 nice, healthy Duchess of Uldenburgs, eight 

 years planted ; in 1881 they gave hini forty bushels, the two following sea- 

 sons about the same, and last season the promise was five bushels per tree, or 

 2,500 bushels, but he gets only twenty bushels of good apples, anl no app;i- 

 rent cause except this insect pest. 



You say poison him ; well, do it. We have used arsenic pure and Londoji 

 purple so weak it did no good and so strong that it killed all the foliage, 

 and yet not a perfect apple in a bushel. Applications from blossom tinu- 

 till the fruit is the size of a filbert. 



Verily success in apple growing is a failure; a few locations, best varietie.'^. 

 judicious culture, vigilant watchfulness, and the bull dog grip may and does 

 often pay. 



Adaptation is so varied in Wisconsin that it is almost impossible to give 

 a list of varieties without going over the ground. First class Rhode Island 

 Greenings were sold the past season at $1.00 per barrel, grown six miles west 

 of Lake Michigan, in Krusha county, Avhile in the central portion of the 

 State only about ten iron clads remain, and only one of these winter. 



It is only safe to plant such varieties as on like soil and location are suc- 

 cessful. In the newer portions of the State and the general farm location 

 plant Crabs, Duchess, Wealthy, Wolf River, McMahan and G(jlden Russet, 

 and go slow ; also plant the seed of these kinds and hope on. 



PEARS. 



The most profitable and freest from blights are those trees that never 

 leave out. I know of one Flemish Beauty tree in Rock county that has paid 

 for planting in good and continuous crojis for years, and some of you have 

 heard of the wonderful pear orchurd nciir Green Bay; there are thousand? 

 of acres along those pine bluffs worth $200 per acre to grow pears, and to a 

 stranger apparently good for nothing else. 



Remember adaptation is the key to success; no doubt our best apple lands 

 are the mountainous regions of BarabooCo., where there are tens of thousands 

 ot acres that will grow just as fine fruit as is here on exhibition. Go and 

 see and take notes of those collections from our State. 



I'LU.MS. 



Our Wisconsin experience with plums is about equal to pears for profit, 

 although in my early planting I had Lombards bear to breaking year after 

 year; the curculio and hard winters have made all the better class unprofit- 



