SOCIETY OF NORTHERN ILLINOIS. 189 



Mr. Kellogg — I am sorry that the Wisconsin people recom- 

 mended the Walhridge so highly, as it has not proved to he all that 

 was claimed for it. Pewaukee is one of our pets. We had a tint- 

 show of fruit at our State Meeting. 



Mr. Slade — I am not sorry that the Wisconsin peo))le recom- 

 mended the Walbridge: 1 think it is a gooil api)l('. and we oiiglit to 

 recommend new fruits of ))r()iuise. 



Mr. Kellogg- I think we recommend thing< before we ought. 

 New varieties should , he well tested before they are represented to 

 the people as being of great value, ami their planting advised. 



Mr. Hallett — T have been engaged in the api)le business for a 

 good many years and aui s(UTy I ever ])lanted an a])})le tree: it does 

 not pav. It is all foolishness to plant apples for protit. aud I have 

 grul)bed up urarly all my orchard. 



Mr. Scott"-! have \v;it(duMl Mr. Halletfs fruit gruwing for 

 thirtv years and think he has been very successful. He expects too 

 luurh. His orchard did wtdl. He had good crops of pluuis: clcanMl 

 ^^2()^> from thirteen trees iu a little garden patch in ouc year: I think 

 that is a? good as any uian could expect. He made six or seven 

 hundred dollars one season froiu a little patch of blackberries. T 

 think Mr. Hallett expects too much: is too grasping. 



Mr. Hallett — I got S20(>a year for two years off of tlic thirteen 

 plum trees Mr. Scott refers to, and being elated over my success T 

 then i)lanted an orchard of thirteen hundred trees and tended them 

 with care for twelve years aud never got a crop. Becoming dis- 

 gusted with the scheme, T grubl)ed the whole orchard up and put the 

 trees in my wood-house. 



Mr. Minkler — I dislike very miudi to have it go o]i the records 

 that an old citizen could n(tt rectnnmend the planting of an orchard. 

 I don't think it would look well and people would not think w(dl 

 of it. 



Mr. Slade I kuow of an apple tree near the city of Elgin 

 that hail l)orne very profusely and very regular for a good many 

 years. 1 attribute its success to some peculiar make u|) of the 

 soil in the immediate vicinity of the tree. I have two Nortlieru 

 Spy apple trees that have been bearing ever since very young. 



Mr. Kellogg — The adaptation of locality is a most important 

 thing iu setting fruit of any kind. 



