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The cherry crop was a good one, Early Richmond doing as 

 well as the common pie cherry. Currants were a plentiful crop, 

 but hardly a paying one, they were sold in Milwaukee market as 

 low as thirty-five cents per bushel. Grapes were an abundant 

 crop in this vicinity. Pears and plums were not so plentiful as 

 last year. Among the pears that produced an average crop were 

 Sugar, Buffum, Seckel, Bartlett, Flemish Beauty, Vicar of Wink- 

 field, Ananas d' Ete, Clapp's Favorite, Louise Bonne, etc. ; 

 Beurre Hardy made fine wood growth, and gives promise of being 

 a fine pear, ripens in September and October. Beurre d' Anjou 

 made vigorous wood growth, but my trees are too young for fruit- 

 ing. Howell and Sheldon, both of American origin, gave a few 

 fine specimens and made nearly three feet of wood growth. 

 Beurre Easter, Lawrence, Bell Lucrative, Emile d' Heyst, Rostie- 

 zer, Manning's Elizabeth, Brandywine, Bloodgood, Beurre Gif- 

 fard, Tyson, and Swan's Orange, are all delightful to the eye, 

 which, to the lover of horticulture, is better than dollars and 

 cents. 



Raspberries were a full crop. The Gregg bore off the palm for 

 size, hardiness and productiveness. Strawberries were a good 

 crop. Among those doing well and deserving special mention are 

 Crescent Seedling, Sharpless, Cumberland Triumph, Capt. Jack, 

 "Wilson, Ida, Prouty's Seedling. Charles Downing and Monarch 

 of the West made but indifferent vine growth, berries too scat- 

 tering to make a paying crop. Green's Prolific, on clay soil, did 

 not seem to thrive well. Black Defiance the same. President 

 Lincoln produced some fine berries, but I think they will do bet- 

 ter with a little more sand than my soil contains. 



Mr. Stickney said the apple yield was so great that it was im- 

 possible to utilize the crop, and full one quarter of it went to waste. 

 Most of this might have been saved, and better returns could have 

 been obtained for much that was sold, if we had had fruit-drying 

 factories to work it up. A factory suitable for such a yield would 

 be quite expensive, and would be remunerative if it could have 

 steady employment, but where they would have to lie idle for 

 three or four years at a time, or have but a small amount of fruit 



