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Vegetable GardenirKj. 



Vegetable gardening:? is carried on to quite an extent by 

 some. Vegetables of all kinds do well in the district. 



FIFTH district — WM. TOOLE, NORTH FREEDOM. 



Counties — Sauk, Juneau, Adams: 



Conditions of Temperature. 



Late spring frosts caused a light crop of apples, except- 

 ing Siberians and on trees in elevated situations. 



Apple trees received no particular injury from the effects 

 of cold or weather changes during the winters of 1835 and 

 188G. 



Strawberries and all of the small fruits came through the 

 winter in splendid order, but suffered badly from excessive 

 heat and dryness of the past summer. 



Apple and other large fruit trees did not recover so much 

 from past injuries as they would have done through a more 

 favorable growing season. Wood was well ripened and in 

 good order to stand the present winter. At this date, Feb. 

 9th, small fruit shrubbery is in good condition, and straw- 

 berries are so well protected with snow that they are proba- 

 bly all right. 



All varieties ripened early this year, so that the late 

 varieties of apples which usually carry well into winter, 

 were gone early in December. 



Varieties Fruited. 



The New Russian varieties of which I have any knowl- 

 edge fruited heavily, as also did the following kinds on ele- 

 vated situations, particularly with northern exposure: Tetof- 

 sky. Duchess, Fall Orange, St. Lawrence, Red Astrachan, 

 Fameuse, Utters, Willow Twig and Walbridge. Talman's 

 Sweet bore considerable numbers of poor fruit, and Golden 

 Russet bore a smaller quantity of still poorer fruit. With 

 the exception of St. Lawrence, Red Astrachan and Wal- 

 bridge, the variety of trees mentioned are in good condition 

 on the best locations. 



