292 TRANSACTIONS OF THE ILLINOIS 



PEARS. 



White Doyenne, Louise Bonne, Flemish Beauty. 



GRAPES. 



Concord, Chnton, Catawba, Delaware, Hartford Prolific. 



CHERRIES. 



Early Richmond, or Early May. 



CURRANTS. 



White Grape, Red and White Dutch. 



GOOSEBERRIES. 



Houghton's Seedling. 

 Doolittle Black Cap. 



Wilson's Albany. 



RASPBERRIES. 



STRAWBERRIES. 



Note. — There is an apple in this county, I believe not known to nurserymen 

 generally, and found in but few orcliards, which is worthy of introduction, and 

 recommendation for general cultivation. Its name is the " May Flower," and was 

 i-aised from a seedling by the late eminent Bishop Chase, of Jubilee. It is a late 

 summer variety, a perfect beauty, and possesses all the characteristics of a good, 

 popular, and profitable fruit, I commend it to the attention of nurserymen, to 

 orchardists, to the consideration of the State Horticultural Society. Information in 

 regard to it can be obtained from Rev. Philander Chase, of Valley Township, Stark 

 County, 111. w. h. b. 



MORGAN COUNTY. 



BY H. H. MASSEY. 



Horticulture, as practiced by the first settlers of Morgan County, was 

 limited to a few seedling apple and peach trees; these few being the 

 " stepping stones," so to speak, to the more extensive plantations of the finer 

 kinds of grafted and budded fruit trees of the present day. John Wilson 

 planted the first orchard of seedling apple trees set out in this county, in the 

 spring of 1831. Thisorchard, and many others planted at or near the same 

 date, are still standing; old familiar landmarks, like old sentinels, shaky, 

 yet steady and ever ready to do their duty. For although useless as fruit 

 bearers, except where top-grafted, their grateful shade and never failing- 

 bloom are always acceptable. The first nursery in the county, that we 

 have any account of, was that of Dr. Langworthy, planted near the 

 western extremity of Diamond Grove; and this only on a limited scale, 

 for private use; altliough many trees were scattered from this small 

 beginning, among the most notable of which is the orchard of Silas 

 Massey, situated on the north side of Diamond Grove, in said county. 

 The first nursery for commercial j^urposes was opened in the spring of 

 1825, near Jacksonville, by Mr. Timothy Chamberlain. The honor of 



