204 "WiscoNsiK State Hobticultueal Socibtt. 



Horticulturists, may we not now well pause and ask for results? 

 Out of very many varieties of grafted apples which have been 

 grown under my observation in this state, only six are now com- 

 mended by our State Society for their hardiness, and general adap- 

 tation, and for favorable locations only eleven more are added, 

 namely, first six: Duchess of Oldenburg, Wealthy, Fameuse, Pe- 

 waukee, "VValbridge and Plumb's Cider. Second: Tetofsky, Ped 

 Astrachan, St. Lawrence, Alexander, Fall Orange, Fall Spitzen- 

 berg. Price's Sweet, Utter, Seek-Ko-Further, Willow Twig, Golden 

 Russet and Haas; possibly individual opinion would double these 

 lists for local planting. 



Of pears we recommend but one, Flemish Beauty, and that 

 under a sort of protest; with nine more for trial. Of cherries 

 three — Early Richmond, Late Richmond or Kentish, and Eng- 

 lish Morello. Of plums the native De Soto for general culture 

 and others for trial. The grape we do grow in perfection, all that 

 are reasonably hardy and early in ripening, while the small fruits 

 are at home in all the settled portions of the state. 



Of the very many varieties of our native and foreign deciduous 

 trees which thrive well here, we select fifteen as especially adapted 

 to timber growing, and add twenty more for ornamental, street 

 and lawn planting. These with about twenty-five varieties of 

 hard}' shrubs and climbers give us an abundant variety for all 

 needful use and ornamentation. Of evergreen trees, we grow nine 

 varieties of native and five of foreign, in great perfection — the 

 foreign adding greatly to our list of adapted trees, and both lists 

 could be increased by careful selections from the mountains of 

 the Pacific slope and Asia. 



In the way of flowering plants, we have the tuberous, bulbous, 

 perennial, annual and greenhouse plants, which make our gardens 

 gay in summer, and our dwellings pleasant in winter, xlnd what 

 shall I say of onr garden products ! Do they not supplement the 

 grain fields in the food supply for the family ? 



I may further say, that we have an horticultural record, a 

 published history of twenty-five years of labor for the public 

 good, which is more and more prized, and sought after, not only 

 in our own state and the east, but in the newer states to the west, 



