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planted. One thousand three hundred pear trees, also two years planted, three- 

 fourths dwarf, balance standard; Mr. S., following directions of Eastern authorities. 

 A vast amount of money has been spent in fitting and planting this place, in accord- 

 ance with instructions referred to, but for selection of varieties of fruits to plant in 

 any locality, especially as to dwarf pear trees, the home experience of an honest 

 wayfaring man should be valued more than the advice of the most intelligent and 

 practical, whose experience has been iu a distant part of the land. 



E. McCune has a fine orchard of forty acres, planted by Dr. Griswold some twenty 

 or more years since. All are stock-worked; Yellow Bellefleur beai's well, much 

 better than President Hammond's trees of same variety root-grafted. Baldwin, R. I. 

 Greening, Rawle's Janet are full of fine fruit. Red Canada is esteemed best by Mr. 

 McCune, Orchard now in grass is to be broken up. A. C. Hammond has fifty acres 

 of apple orchard, largely of Ben Davis, which is esteemed very profitable. Wine Sap 

 is troubled here as elsewhere on our route, with leaf or spur blight; fruit much 

 aflected by scab. The Snow is very much scabbed. Maiden's Blush and the ditterent 

 varieties of Russets are fair in all localities visited. Trees of Rawle's Janet are faihng 

 in this orchard. Some of the "rotten root," which has been so prevalent in Southern 

 Illinois, is noticed. Delaware grape is full of fruit of no value; leaves mostly gone. 



A good attendance of the members of the Warsaw Horticultural Society in the 

 evening, at the mansion of Dr. Hay. The lecture of Dr. Hull was well received. A 

 very fine display of pears and apples was made. Mark Aldricli planted the first 

 orchard in "Warsaw 1834; trees appear healthy and vigorous. 



September 21st, visited G. B. Worthen's vineyard of thirteen acres, some four miles 

 southwest of Warsaw. Several acres of Catawba are worthless. Clinton, Norton's 

 Virginia and Concord are his favorites— have a fine crop of best quality. His wine 

 cellar is a model structure, well stocked with wines and brandies, pronounced by 

 judges to be of excellent quality. Some half dozen old apple trees at his house were 

 breaking down with their loads of ftiir fruit— Pennock and Rawle's Janet. H. Wor- 

 then has eight acres adjoining his brother's. Clinton and Concord are fine; Catawbas 

 are to be dug up. Seedling peaches are more productive and profitable than budded 

 trees. These vineyards are on ridges elevated several hundred feet above the river — 

 appear to be well adapted to general fruit-growing. Hill & Knox, of Warsaw, have 

 an apple orchard, recently planted, near Messrs. Worthen of over a hundred acres. 



At Galesburg, September 23d, we were cordially welcomed by Messrs. W. S. Balch, 

 C. E. Carr, T. G. Hull, Capt. Fuller, R. W. Hunt, and D. Mason, a committee of 

 reception appointed by the local society. The luu-sery of Messrs. Hunt & Mason is 

 well stocked with a general assortment of fruit and ornamental trees, shrubs, vines, 

 and plants ; some seventy-five acres in good cultivation. At the nursery of Adnah 

 Williams Sons is a moderate quantity of fine evej'greens of proper sizes for transplant- 

 ing, and acres which have grown up into a fine timber lot. Humphrey & Hester's 

 nursery is well spoken of— was not visited. Captain Fuller has for family use some 

 remarkably thrifty grape vines, among them the Eumelan. At Mr. T. J. Hale's and 

 Prof. Standish's are fine collections of choice and rare ornamental trees, shrubs and 

 plants, well cared for. Mrs, Standish presented us figs well matured in the open air. 

 In the evening a fine display of fruits was made at Caledonia Hall, and a good audience 

 gathei'ed, who were well entertained by Dr. Hull. The street trees, liberally planted 

 at the first settlement of Galesburg, wei-e mostly black locust. Some fifteen years 



