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nurseries furnishing fruit trees in our county as yet. There have been no new 

 varieties originated in our county, as I know of. The most vigorous and 

 healthy looking of the oldest apple trees here are the Northern Spy, Golden 

 Russet, Tallin an Sweet, and Virginia Red Streak. As to pears, I would say I think 

 the Flemish Beauty and Bartlett the safest and surest here. Plums of most 

 kinds do very well. At the time of writing this, some thirty plum trees in 

 my garden are heavily loaded. Peaches are not reliable here; but what there 

 are here give promise of an abundant yield of fruit this season. Some hardy 

 kinds of grapes, like the Delaware and Concord, do very well in this section. 

 To all of your questions after the fourth, I would say no. 



JACKSON COUNTY. 

 BY MICHAEL SHOEMAKER. 



In reply to your circular of May 21, I would state that the first fruit trees 

 planted in this county were set out in 1830 by Mr. A. W. Daniels, on the farm 

 of his father, Mr. Henry Daniels, in what is now the township of Blackman. 

 The trees for this orchard were sent from the State of New York by Mr. Henry 

 Daniels, who had been "looking lands" through the county in 1829 with a 

 view of locating here with his family, as he did in 1830. 



In answer to your second inquiry to "name some early orchardists, with 

 incidents connected with their work," I would report that the Hon. Townsend 

 E. Gidley, on his farm, now in the township of Sandstone, was first both in the 

 extent of his orchard and in varieties of fruit cultivated during the entire time of 

 his residence here. When Mr. Gidley left Jackson county he went to the 

 eastern shore of Lake Michigan, where he made the cultivation of fruit his sole 

 occupation. The largest peach I have ever seen was at Gidley's Station, on 

 the Michigan Central railroad, about the year 1845. Other early orchardists 

 in the township of Sandstone were Amasa Hawkins, Caleb Chapel, Sherman 

 Eastman, Samuel Fassett, John Dearin and Capt. Chester Wall. 



In the township of Napoleon, Morgan Case, John H. Burroughs, first to 

 raise apples, brought the trees from Ypsilanti ; Simon Holland, Chauncey 

 Hawley, Roswell B. Rexford. Isaac Hatt brought his trees from Ann Arbor, 

 on his back. 



In the township of Norvell, Harvey Austin, William Hunt, Aaron Austin, 

 John Hunt, and Perrin Convose. 



In the township of Columbia, George Stranahan planted first orchard in 

 1831 or '2; Thomas Lewis, Richard Crego, John Crego, William Gallup, 

 Benjamin Davis, Anson H. Delemater, and Gardner J. Gollen. 



In the township of Tompkins, Richard Townley, David Adams, Jesse Fer- 

 guson, Walter Ferguson, Gardner J. Gould, and Nicholas Townley. 



In the township of Rives, Harry Hurd, Jesse Hurd, John Snyder, Willard 

 Reed, Samuel Prescott, Robert H. Anderson, Alvah True, Ezra Higby, and 

 John S. Trumball. 



In the township of Concord, Isaac N. Swain. 



In the township of Hanover, Abiel Tripp, William Clapp, James Nash, F. 

 A. Kennedy, Jr., Morgan Buchanan, Daniel Porter, Grinnell Reynolds, J. C. 

 Bell and John Crittenden. 



In the township of Pulaski, Michael Nowlan, Luther L. Wood, Warner J. 

 Hodge (brought his trees with him), Sherman Jacobs, Henry Nowlan, John 

 Wilbar, John Weaver and Thomas McGee. 



