STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 303 



EDWARDS COUNTY. 



Tour favor of Nov. Hth, was duly received, and I have been making some enquiries 

 among our oldest citizens in regard to your question. 



The first orchard planted In this county, as near as I can learn, -was planted in the 

 western pari of the count; by a Mr. Anderson ; it was planted in 1819 or '20, and was 

 composed wholly of seedling trees ; the next orchard planted in the county was set in 

 I s -".', by Daniel Orange, Esq., a very enterprising and successful horticulturist; the 

 trees he planted were large and removed with care, and commenced bearing in two 

 years after they were set out ; this orchard, which was the fust one to produce fruit in 

 this county, is still in good bearing order, and many of the original trees bear large crops 

 of fruit ; the first trees set out by Mr. Orange were, the Ben Davis Large Romanite, 

 Yellow Bcllefleur, Newtown Pippin, Rambo, Sops of Wine, and some varieties whose 

 names we could not ascertain ; two of them are very excellent apples, one of them 

 is a rather large Hat apple, color dark wine, nearly black, and covered with bloom 

 like a plum ; flesh, yellow, sometimes tinged with red ; very tender and line llavored, 

 keeps till February. The other is a large, red striped apple, covered with small, white 

 Bpeeks ; the Mesh is yellow, and the flavor very superior to any sweet apple we have 

 ever tasted ; it is called here the Wiley Sweet, but this is a local name. 



In 1823, or ,- 2t, Mr. Pell brought from New York, a large number of fruit trees of vari- 

 ous kinds, from which sprang many good orchards. Soon after this, Sydney Spring, 

 Est}., commenced a nursery in this county ; he w r as an experienced nurseryman from 

 Aberdeen, Scotland, and to him we are indebted for many of our best fruits ; he, how- 

 ever, was not sufficiently patronized to justify him iu continuing it. In about the year 

 1S40, Mr. James Johnson planted a small nursery ; he succeeded very well until 1858, 

 when he died. 



In l v ."o, your correspondent started a nursery and imported many varieties of choice 

 fruits from the Ea>t, some of which arc well adapted to the latitude. In 1859 {?) Mr. 

 Josiah Dawes, commenced the nursery business, near Albion, and has met with good 

 success. 



The varieties of apples best suited to this locality, are, for Summer: — Early Har- 

 vest, Red Astrachan, American Summer Pcarmain, Summer Queen, and Golden Sweel ; 

 For Autumn;— Fall Pippin, Si. Lawrence, Maiden's Blush, Ramho, Porter and Dutch 

 Ifignonne; For Winter, ; — Eawle's Janet,* Neverfail, Ben Davis, Rome Beauty, Winesap, 

 Baldwin, Wiley Sweet (local), Ladies Sweet, Cooper's Market, Limbcrtwig, Yellow 

 Bellclleur, Pottlnger; there are several new varieties that promise welL 



Pears — Bartlett, Madeline, Doyenne d Etc, Ott, Louise Bonne dc Jersey, Onondaga, 

 Belle Lucrative, St. Ghislain, Seckcl, Stevens' Genesee. 



Peaches — Old Mixon Free, Crawford'* Early, Crawford's Late, Early York, Smock 

 Free, Stump the World, Jaque's Rareripe. 



Plums — do not succeed here on account of the ravages of the curculio. 



Grapes— Catawba, babella, Delaware, Clinton, Concord, Hartford Prolific. 



Currants — Red and White Mutch, Cherry, Grape. 



Gooseberry and Houghton's Seedling; most other kinds mildew. 



* Bawle's Janet and Never&Q are claimed by some to be identical. This is an error, as I can 

 easily demonstrate. 



