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yet doing well. Of the sorts that are known — Domine, Early Pennock, Rawles' Janet, 

 and Sweet Vandevere have been the best and most profitable. Soil, deep, rich prai- 

 rie loam; trees set twenty-five feet apart, protected by timber on the south. The 

 trees from seed, before named, produced some fair fruit, but none worth propa- 

 gating. 1 



In 1837, R. H. Wixom bought twenty-four stock-grafted trees from a peddler 

 from the Wabash country; planted them sixteen feet apart, on soil not so deep or 

 rich as Mr. Dewey's, They were protected by timber on the southeast. Maiden's 

 Blush has done well; Yellow Bellflower, never borne much. I think four, bought 

 for Rhode Island Greenings, are Willow Twig; three of them yet standing. Two 

 out of three Rambos yet remain, and have done the best of any in the lot. Mr. 

 Wixom, at the time of planting the above orchard, also obtained seed from cider 

 press, which he planted, raising ti-ees from which he set an orchard, which has 

 produced fruit only fit for cider. 



In the spring of 1846, S.J. Haight set 200 trees, obtained from Curtis' nursery 

 in Edgar County. Eifty trees of Milam, which he obtained under the name of Red 

 Winter Pearmain, he says have been worth double all of the balance, except Maid- 

 en's Blush, of which he has ten trees. These have done very well. Tolman's 

 Sweet and Sweet June have been satisfactory, also White Winter Pearmain. The 

 latter is liable to scab. Sweet Bough, together with ten other sorts all failed in the 

 winter of 1855-56. About 175 of the trees yet remain, and are in fair condition. The 

 above favorably-mentioned sorts are all he considers worthy of notice in the lot. 

 This orchard was planted on soil medium between prairie and timber, at southeast 

 corner of Four-Mile Grove. 



In the last few years we have had home nurseries of the most approved sorts 

 of fruits; since which the plantings of Apple and Early Richmond Cherry trees, 

 have become quite general, 2,000 apple and 600 cherry being the largest individual 

 risk I know of here." 



Mr. Baldwin, northwest of Ottawa, set an orchard of 300 trees in 

 1847; could get no further information respecting it, than that the trees 

 were apparently healthy and quite productive. They were set on timber 

 land; some protection on north and east. 



Wm. Galvin, who has an orchard near the last-named, speaks highly 

 of the Early Red Margaret, on account of its great productiveness. 



In 1852 Nathan Hardy set 300 trees of Domine, Large and Small Ro- 

 manite, Westneld Seek-no-further, Autumn Strawberry, Rox. Russet, M. 

 Blush, and Early Harvest. The orchard looks neglected, some trees 

 having been killed by borers. Mr. Hardy speaks highly of M. Blush 

 and Seek-no-further. These trees are set on the north side of the timber 

 belt on the bluff. 



In 1845 Jonathan Massey set three acres, consisting of Early Harvest, 

 Early Sweet Bough, Barnhill Summer, Milam, Eng. Golden Russet, 

 Domine, R. I. Greening, Bellflower, and Tolman Sweet. This orchard 

 is on the prairie, with no protection; southern exposure; trees all healthy 

 and vigorous. 



D. L. Carpenter, at Seneca, has fifteen acres planted twelve years 

 ago, upon the Illinois river bottom, and protected on the northwest, north, 

 and northeast by high bluffs and timber. The trees are generally healthy, 

 when exempt from borers. The Varieties are Early Harvest, Sweet 

 Bough, » Red June. M. Blush, Snow, Hawley, N. Spy, Jonathan, R. 

 Janet, Flushing Spitzenhurg, Westfield, Seek-no-further, Belmont, Gilpin, 

 Tolman Sweet, Eng. Golden Russet, Domine, Milam, Limber Twig, 



