STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I. By Robert Douglas, Lake Co. 



In glandng over the list of Trees, etc., recommended by the above Society, I see the 

 European Larch marked recommended by individuals, and American Larch recommended 

 by the Society. I think the European, and not the American, was recommended l>y 

 the Society. 



Qinko la marked tender on the list. I have four or five specimens of several years 

 standing ; they have all proved quite hardy, (only for ornament.) Tulip Tree, Cucum- 

 ber Magnolia, European and American Mountain A6h, are all hardy and ornamental. 

 Norway Maple is beautiful, and holds its foliage much later than any American Maple. 



II. By D. C. Scofield, Kane Co. 



apples. 



Baldwin — Tender, shy bearer, unworthy cultivation. 



Bellflower — Tree vigorous, hardy, yet generally unproductive; unworthy cultivation. 



Yellow Bough (Sweet Bough) — Will not endure this climate. 



Lady Apple and Ladies' Sweeting — Nearly total failures. 



Limber Twig — Tender and worthless here. 



Newtown Pippin — Entire failure. 



Pommc Grise — Tree hardy, good grower, yet apples too small for use, and quite im- 

 perfect ; unworthy. 



Esopus Spitzenburg — Tree tender ; fruit small and sparse. 



Winter Winesap — Tree remarkably vigorous and healthy, yet very unproductive, and 

 fruit small. 



CHERRIES. 

 The Heart and Bigarreau Cherries are here a total failure. The whole family of Mor- 

 ello do finely here — the Early Richmond on Morello stock first best. 



PLUMS. 

 Failure on prairie soil ; succeeds only in a few localities, on timber lands. 



RASPBERRIES. 

 Red and Hudson River Antwerps, tender and valueless. 



VARIETIES OF APPLES NOT ENUMERATED IN THE LIST. 



1st. Tart Bough — On prairie soil the tree is a remarkably strong grower, hardy, with 

 a large spreading head, and abundant bearer ; fruit large, greenish yellow, tart, tender, 

 and ripens immediately after the Sweet Bough. 



'2d. Garbage. — On prairie soil the tree is a strong and rapid grower; v<-ry hardy, 

 early and abundant bearer; fruit medium, sweet and excellent, and is a successive 

 ripener, being a week earlier than Early Harvest, and abundantly supplies tin place I 

 Sweet Bough. These two varieties are cultivated in the nurseries at Syracuse, N. Y., 

 formerly known as Thorpe & Smith's, and are too valuable to be lost. 



PEARS. 

 I would not strike one from the list of pears ; not one of the whole family U proof 



