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fine climate, wood and water are abundant; you are vastly nearer 

 the seaboard (a perpetual advantage), and you will help build up 

 a grandly endowed, but sadly unfortunate country — a country 

 surely destined to yet see a return of far more than its ancient 

 wealth. Taking part in so good a work as this, your folly in leav- 

 ing such a state as Wisconsin may almost be accounted wisdom. 



VARIETIES OF APPLES ADAPTED TO THE NORTH- 

 WEST. 



A. J. PHILLIPS, West Salem. 



I take it for granted that President Smith well understood what 

 he intended to draw out when he set this subject apart for my con- 

 sideration, by associating the word west with the north; for that 

 entirely changes the subject. While the north would take us into 

 fine orchards in Canada and in the vicinity of Lake Ontario; in the 

 northern part of the state of New York; into as fine a fruit region 

 as can be found; also into the northern part of Michigan in the 

 vicinity of Grand Traverse Bay, where the peach grows and flour- 

 ishes; and in our own state it takes us to the home of our worthy 

 president, in whose locality pears grow in such profusion that they 

 care so little for them that when they go to the fair they hardly 

 stop to pick them, but like the careless boys when they go out to 

 gather persimmons or choke cherries, walk up and break off limbs 

 loaded with delicious fruit; and to hang them in a conspicuous 

 place when on exhibition, would seem to aggravate such men as 

 Kellogg and myself, who can hardly make it pay to raise them for 

 five dollars each. I say while the north takes us to these chosen 

 localities where the list of apples and other fruits adapted would 

 be very large, adding the word west he drives us from these and 

 locates us in portions of Wisconsin and Minnesota where it is cold — 

 yes, very cold — and as a consequence the list of apples adapted, 

 where the thermometer runs down often to twenty or thirty, and 

 sometimes to forty degrees below zero, is very limited. As I have 

 been many times misled by reports and articles on this subject as 

 published in various transactions, and as stated to me by nursery- 

 men or their agents, and having lost not only trees but time and 



