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Fameuse and others. Koundsville stuck by it in 1875. J. C. 

 Plumb recommended it in 1877. B. B. Olds placed it in his list 

 of six in 1878. Huntley spoke of it favorably that year, and the 

 same year, on motion of A. Gr. Tuttle, it was stricken from the 

 list, no one rising to say a word in its favor. B. F. Adams said, 

 in 1880, that after fruiting it three years, he was in favor of it. 

 Suel Foster, of Iowa, said, after fall of 1880, that Ben Davis and 

 Willow Twig were his two best paying varieties. I am not sure 

 that we acted wisely in dropping it entirely, as with all its short- 

 comings, faults and failures, trees that were set in 1872, in this 

 town, yielded five bushels to the tree of nice fruit; and to-day, 

 notwithstanding its poor quality, it will outsell arjy apple in my 

 cellar, excepting Pewaukee and Jonathan. I will set twenty-five 

 more next spring, if I can get them. 



In 1874, Judge Cate wrote an able article and gave us many 

 valuable suggestions. Crab roots for grafting stand in 1880 

 about where they did in 1870, having lost rather than gained 

 friends and advocate?. Pears are weaker on account of blight 



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Flemish Beauty stood first, then, and still holds its own. Kel- 

 logg took premiums on pears in 1872, and in 1871 said he had a 

 pear growing on Mountain Ash, doing finely, which is about his 

 last evidence in favor of pear growing in Wisconsin. The Pe- 

 waukee and Walbridge run quite low in the estimation of plant- 

 ers from 1873 to 1876, since which time they both have been 

 gaining ground, especially Pewaukee, which grows better and 

 hardier as it grows older. It bore heavy crops of fine fruit, last 

 fall, and is entitled to all that brother Peffer ever said in its favor. 

 The Concord, in grapes, and the Wilson, in strawberries, stand 

 now at the head of their respective lists, as they did ten years 

 ago, although many rivals have tried to dethrone them. S. D. 

 Carpenter urged the growing of grapes, in 1871, and advised 

 making them into wine. S. D. Hastings, the same year, read an 

 able paper against wine drinking. Salt was then recommended 

 for blight, and I hardly think we know of anything better now. 

 Branches and buds of peach trees from open ground were shown 

 in 1872, in good condition, but the like has not occurred since, 

 for good and sufficient reasons, to wit : too cold. 



