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From the experience of practical fruit growers in different countries, the fact 

 has long since been well settled, that no kind or variety of fruit succeeds equally 

 well in all localities, and from the limited time that fruit has been cultivated in 

 this State, it is at present difficult, nay impossble, to decide with any degree of 

 certainty, what kinds will best reward the cultivator in this soil and climate. But 

 from the size and uniform fairness of the specimens presented, the Committee 

 cannot entertain a reasonable doubt but what the different kinds that have been 

 found to succeed well in the Eastern and Middle States, will be equally produc- 

 tive and profitable with us. 



The following selection of fruits have been made upon the authority of expe- 

 rienced and practical fruit-growers in ditierent parts of the country, and are 

 recommended by the Committee as prominent among the varieties worthy of a 

 first trial. Experience, however, may prove that some of them will fail to maintain 

 with us their usual good character, and should of course be made to give place 

 to more promising kinds; but of this, nothing short of a thorough trial will justify 

 the entire rejection of any standard fruit of the Eastern or Middle States. 



LIST OF SELECT FRUITS. 



Apples Summer. — Early Harvest, Red Astrachan, Early Eve, Early Straw- 

 berry, Sweet Bough. 

 Fall. — Fall Pippin, Gravenstein, Hawley, Porter, Pomme Royal, 



Rambo, Golden Sweet. 

 Winter. — Baldwin, Yellow Belflower, Rhode Island Greening, Belmont, 

 Peck's Pleasant, Swaar, Esopus Spitzenberg, Roxbury Russet, 

 Newtown Pippin, Northern Spy, Tall man Sweet. 



Pears Summer. — Madeline, Bloodgood, Dearborn's Seedling. 



Auhimn. — Bartlet, White Doyenne, Seckel, Urbaniste, Flemish Beauty, 



Louisa Bon de Jei"sey, Maria Louisa, Oswego Beurre. 

 ]Vinfer. — Winter Nelis, Beurre de Aremburg, Vicar of Wakefield, 

 Easter Beurre. 



Plums Early Orleans, Bolmar's Washington, Green Gage, Imperial Gage, 



Jefferson, Coe's Golden Drop. 



CHERRiES...May Duke, Black Tartarian, Graffion or Bigarreau, Elton, Late Duke. 



Grapes Clinton, Catawba, Isabella. 



All of which is respectfully submitted, 



H. J. STARIN, ^ 



SIMEON MILLS, ! Committee. 



J. F. DRAKE, 



Janesville, October 2d, 1851. F. W. LOUDON, 



