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Strawberries — Wilson/Green's Prolific, Crescent,Crescent 

 City, Bid well, Piper's Seedling, Captain Jack, Prouty, Jas. 

 Vick, Charles Dawning, Jumbo, Mr. Loudon's Jessie and I 

 suppose many others that I don't have the names of. 



Grapes — Warden, Concord, Delaware, Janesville, Hart- 

 ford, Prolific, Northern, Muscadine. 



Soils, Sites and Resources. 



I can't give a very definite description of the soil, but will 

 class the soil of this district as high lime-stone, sandy loam 

 and drift. I consider the high sand-stone soils the best for 

 fruit, and the drift next. In reference to orchard sites, I 

 will mention I have always thought until recently that an 

 east or northeast slope was best. I have an orchard set on 

 lime- stone soil (the stone crops out in places), and an east 

 slope. Mr. Alcott, a neighbor, has an orchard set on simi- 

 lar ground. His is a west slope. His orchard, especially 

 Golden Russet, bear much heavier crops nearly every year. 

 I think his advantage comes from his protection from east 

 winds, when his trees are in bloom. 



Fruit Lists. 



Apples — Summer: Transparent, Tetofsky, Saps of Wine. 

 (Red Astrachan is fairly hardy, but is a shy bearer, and the 

 last two years has been worthless with me, owing to apple 

 gougers, causing the fruit to be small and deformed). 



Autumn Apples — Duchess, St. Lawrence, Fall Orange 

 and Haas. 



Early Winter — Wealthy, Fameuse, Utters. 



Late Winter — Golden Russet, Roman Star, Willow Twig, 

 Seek- no-further, Wallbridge, Pewaukee. 



I have great hopes that some of ttie New Russians will 

 take the place in the near future of some of the above list. 



Pears and plums — I have no list to recommend. 



Cherries — Early Richman, Kentish, and D. L. Young, of 

 Monroe, adds English Morello. 



Blackberries — Ancient Briton, Snyder and Stone's Hardy. 



Raspberries — Black: Gregg, Ohio. Red: Sheflfer's Collos- 

 sal and Cuthbert. 



