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" The soil xipon which these apples were grown is a prairie loam, 



slightly mixed with sand. The seed was sown twelve years ago this fall. 



I grafted them in the root ten years ago last spring. I planted them in 



the orchard eight years ago. Three years ago I put about a bushel of 



ashes around each tree, which is all the manure they ever had ; at the 



same time they were washed with soap suds. -, ^^ 



•' ^ John Bell. 



Third largest number of varieties of good apples ; Orra Martin, Spring 

 Prairie. ^3. 



Varieties Exhibited. 



Summer. \ Queen Ann. 



Spurr or Spice Sweeting. Winter. 



Autumn. Sweet Greenina'. 



Wine. Red Baldwin. 



Rambo. Yellow Bellefleur. 



Early Winter. Late Winter. 



Red, or Cornish Gilliflower. Martin's Russet. 



Green Newtown Pippin. Boston Russet. 



Rock (the real name is lost.) Seedling (a winter apple.) 



Fameuse. 



" The trees, bearing the above named apples, grew upon a south-eastern 

 declivity. The soil a dark loam, nearly the same as the adjacent prairie, 

 on a limestone subsoil. The ground is annually cultivated in corn, pota- 

 toes, or ruta bagas, with occasionally a light dressing of manure, and 

 the body of the trees washed one or more times with soap suds durino- 



*^^ '^^'°^- Okra Martik." 



For the best six varieties of good apples ; Anson H. Taylor, Muskeo-o. 

 Bronze Medal. 



Varieties Exhibited. 



R. I. Greening. Swaar. Tolman Swectinsf- 



Roxbury Russet. Fall Pippin. Rambo. \ 



Straat. Seek-no-further. Colvert. 



" The orchard from which the above named apples were gathered was- 

 planted in the years 1845 and 1846. The holes for the trees were dug- 

 about three feet in diameter, and deeper than the roots required to set 



