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Among the many promising new apples, none shown at our an- 

 nual exhibitions have attracted more attention than the "Waupaca 

 County Seedlings." All these, so far, are accidental seedlings, and 

 grown in various localities and conditions, favorable and unfavora- 

 ble, but for size, beauty and real worth of fruit and tree, are some 

 of them worthy of special mention in this volume. 



Conspicuous among these is the Wolf River variety, originated 

 about fifteen years ago. The original tree now stands near the east 



Fig. 25. Outline op Wolf River. 



bank of Wolf river, in the northwest corner of Winnebago county, 

 some twenty feet above low water mark; soil, red sandy clay, quite 

 impervious to water, and tends to produce a late, unripened growth; 

 originally heavy timbered with oak, elm and ash. It was once a 

 part of a large and promising orchard of seedlings and grafted 

 fruit, of which little remains but this tree and two Duchess in 

 fair condition, while other Duchess near by show signs of early 

 decay. The location is evidently a very trying one for the apple 

 tree. The Wolf River tree is exceedingly vigorous, hardy and 

 productive, even there. It is of a strong spreading habit, and I 

 should say a seedling of the Alexander, which it resembles in gen- 

 eral outline and quality of fruit. Fruit large, round, flattened, 



