184 Wisconsin State Hokticultural Society. 



Soil has very much to do with success. Supposing that new 

 virgin soil was the best, I cleared a wood-lot of black oak, wild 

 crab and hazel brush, and planted nineteen kinds. This was a 

 failure. Most of the kinds were not worth picking, while ten 

 feet from this patch, on ground worked twenty-five years, with- 

 out manure, the same kinds, in a very poor season yielded two 

 hundred and sixty-five bushels per acre. 



At the conclusion of the reading of Mr. Kellogg's paper, Mr. 

 Harris said he had noticed that the Green Prolific and Crescent 

 Seedling were highly recommended for general cultivation, but 

 they are not what is called "perfect plants," that is will not fer- 

 tilize themselves, and will not bear unless male plants, or varie- 

 ties that are " perfect," are set out with or near them. A large 

 proportion of farmers do not understand this peculiarity, and 

 their efforts to raise berries from these varieties will generally 

 result in disappointment and failure. Unless the conditions are 

 very favorable, the Green Prolific is a very unsatisfactory berry, 

 poor in quality, poor to yield, and too soft to market even near 

 home. A man at La Crosse had six acres of this variety but did 

 not realize, he believed, over sixty dollars from the whole plan- 

 tation. He was compelled to pick evenings and market early in 

 the morning the fruit was so soft, and with all the care they were 

 so poor in quality that they were not fit to eat. While there are 

 other varieties of good quality that do not require other plants to 

 be set near to fertilize them, it did not seem advisable for horti- 

 cultural societies to recommend berries of this kind. 



In regard to the best slope for a vineyard, he regarded a 

 southern aspect as much the best. In his own experience the 

 grapes ripened earlier and were of better quality in such loca- 

 tions. He knew that a slope to the west was not good for them, 

 the moisture hangs on the leaves until late in the morning, and 

 has a tendency to produce mildew. The same is also true of 

 northern slopes. 



To an inquiry as to how often strawberry beds should be reset, 

 Mr. Kellogg replied, that when the beds are well filled with 

 plants the first crop is much the best. Frequently, where the 



