STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 311 



■ in 'West era Ploughboy,' November 24, L881. 



" COLLET & MASSON'S LIST OF TREES. 



Apple Trees 12}£ c each; 111.60 per 100, and $100 per 1000. 



Pennsylvania Red Streak (Wine), Red Colville, Qaston, Carondlet, Da Bruil — [tlat, 

 dark red, early winter apple, very good]; Dens Reeollettes, Belle Flower, Russets, Non- 

 pareil, Newtown Pippin, Pound Pippin, Fall Pippin, Flat Red, Rallstone'a Jannett 

 Rawles 1 Janet], Jenetting, Small Romanite [Gilpin], Large Romanite | Pennock], Winter 

 Pearmain, Hoop's Pearmain, Green Pippin [Newtown?], Rambo, Red Rassett [Pryor's 

 Red], Early Nonsuch, Seek no further, MuTisburgh Pippin, Ramshorn, Hubbardstown 

 Nonsuch, Pine Pearmain, Vermont Queening, Barret Russott, Flat Russett, Early 

 Sweet, Porter Apple, Rhode Island Greening, Buckingham, Vandervere, Lady, or 

 Pomme D 1 Appie, Pruil Apple, Fall Apple. Besides a variety of others. 



l'i \ks. — At iiT 1 cents each: Brown Butter, Grey Butter, White Butter, Doyenne 

 Buerre, Summer Bergamot, Autumn Bcrgamot or Cra6sou, Winter Bergamot, Sugar 

 Pear, Seckle Pear, Winter Pear, Rousillet, Belle Pear, Early Sweet, Prairie du Pont 

 Pear. Besides a variety of others. 



I'i.miik-. — At I* 1 -, cents each: Twenty different kinds comprising a complete suc- 

 cession from July 10th, till first of November: [a very desirable succession.] Also a 

 variety of Nectarines, Apricots and Plums, at 50 cents each. 



Qi lnces. —Two varieties. 



Currants. — Black, Red and Missouri. 



Black Locust, Locust Vine, Honey Suckle, Althea, Lilac. Roses, a great variety 

 Red Raspberries, Evergreen .Myrtle, together with many others, too numerous to 

 mention." 



"In 1820 or '30, Mr. Charles Howard obtained some peach seed from a Mr. Tichenal, 

 which he planted on block 1 in Alton. Of the trees which grew from them he trans- 

 planted one to hi- farm near Greenwood, and afterwards to his present farm, where it is 

 still (1866), a living, fruit-bearing tree." (Madison County Gazetteer, p. 262.) 



Dr. B. F. Long, in a paper read before the Alton Horticultural Society, says, that in 

 is:;i, when he became a citizen of the State, "there was nol an engrafted apple or pear 

 tree ol improved fruit within the limits of township 5 - !), - 10, (i - !), and 6 - 10, except 

 a small orchard in the latter, upon the land now owned by Dr. E. S. Hull, and but one 

 small orchard of Improved peaches of not more than fifteen trees, which wen- brought 

 from another Mate. In the Spring of l^:v.', I received some clons from Mr. Smith'.-* 

 orchard, of Bond county, of the Large and small Romanite apples which were then con- 

 sidered as No. 1 fruit. These were inserted In trees on my premises In Upper Alton, 

 which was the flrsi work of engrafting done in this vicinity. In the summer"! the same 

 year, I commenced the budding of peach trees, which was a novel operation to the 

 Inhabitants of the land." 



The Paradise a p pi I- has been since my earliest remembrance, 1885, cultivated In this 

 county as a curiosity, for ornament and even for use. It was I presume Introduced by 

 the French settlers ; previous to the introduction of the Early Harvest it was one of our 

 earliest apples, and although insipid and often hitter, was used and sold for want of 

 better. 



The common red curranl was grown in considerable quantity, and wine made of Its 

 fruit by Gershom Plagg over thirty years ago, or say 1S;>.">. 



