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Haas, Utter, Alexander, and Price's Sweet, but light with the 

 last. For winter, I would set quite extensively of the Willow 

 Twig on account of its long-keeping qualities; Golden Russet, for 

 the same reason; Pewaukee, for the same reason and also for the 

 quality of the apple; Red Queen, a Russian variety, for the hardi- 

 ness and beauty of growth, hoping that the fruit as a winter apple 

 will prove satisfactory. I would also set a few Talman Sweets, as 

 a winter sweet apple is very good to have in a family. Then I 

 would set two of the Moscow, and about two of every variety of 

 Russians that you can get hold of, in hopes that in the lot there 

 may be some valuable hardy varieties, that when a hard winter like 

 1872 or 1873 comes this way, some of them might possibly survive 

 to tell the tale to coming generations yet unplanted, and serve as a 

 warning to all who wish to engage in fruit or apple growing as a 

 business, to locate in some more favorable locality than the frigid 

 northwest. Now if anyone who reads or hears this article read 

 should be tempted to select a location like the one I have described, 

 and goes to work and sets the varieties I have named, and adds all 

 others that are recommended and grown by all of our nurserymen, 

 and is bound to make apple growing a success, all I can say is, it 

 is not my fault, and I heartily wish such an one God speed; and he 

 will be successful if he has some very wealthy relations that are 

 disposed to help him financially whenever he needs assistance to 

 fall back on. But don't think by the foregoing that I am at all 

 discouraged; not a bit of it. It was said that a lady once made the 

 remark, while attending the funeral of her ninth husband, and 

 looking over the assembled audience for a suitable one for the tenth, 

 "that if it were not for hope the heart would break." That is my 

 case; if it was not for the hope I have that in addition to the Weal- 

 thy some new seedlings may yet be discovered, or that out of the 

 many Russians now being tried here and in Canada, there will some - 

 thing be found that is as perfectly adapted to stand the climate of 

 the northwest as the oak, maple or elm is, I should be bankrupt 

 and discouraged. I have for four years been setting a few grafts of 

 the hardiest varieties I have found, so that now I have a few trees 

 of No. 20 and Wealthy that I could spare to my neighbors; 

 but here a new difficulty comes in: I can't afford to give them away, 

 and if I sell, that places me in the professional list of growers to 

 exhibit with at the fair, and they are a difficult crowd to compete 



