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them out. The trees were set in top-soil earth, with a coat of well rotted 

 manure on top, and set so as to designate each kind. The ground has 

 been cultivated each year, and manured to some extent. 



A. H. Taylor,'" 



For the best three varieties of good apples ; Cyrus Hawley, Milwaukee, 

 Downing's fruits. 



Varieties Exhibited. 

 Fall Pippin. Belmont. Esopus Spitzenberg. 



" The soil of my apple orchard is a clayey loam. It has received only 

 the ordinary cultivation for root crops, which crops are usually planted 

 in it, with a yearly dressing of about fifteen loads per acre of barn-yard 

 manure, spread broadcast and plowed in. I usually wash the trunks of 

 my trees in the spring with thin, soft soap. P H\ • - " 



PEARS. 



For the largest number of varieties of good pears ; John B. Dousman, 

 M. D., Milwaukee. Bronze medal. 



PLUMS. 



For the best exhibition of good plums ; George P. Pfeffer, Pewaukee, 

 Thomas' Fruits. 



Varieties Exhibited. 

 Yellow Egg. Yellow Gage. Coe's Golden Drop, 



Dean's Purple. Green Gage. Damson. 



Purple Gage. Red Egg. Bleecker Red. 



Imperial Gage. Royal Prince. 



" These plums were raised from grafts upon wild plum stocks. The 

 grafts, though but three years since their setting, have proved them- 

 selves excellent bearers. I also present for exhibition, the plum weevil 

 or curculio. My own experience with this insect is, that it attacks the 

 plum from the beginning of June until the second week in July. About 

 four weeks after the attack, the plum falls to the ground, when the grub 

 either remains in the plum or enters the soil. In the month of Sep- 

 tember, it again emerges as the curculio, and attacks the small shoots of 

 the season's gro^vth, depositing in them its eggs. These in the spring; 

 hatch again into the weevil, and eat the centre of the buds then just 

 shooting, thus destroying the grafts and young trees. When in this 



