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Janet, Winesap, Milam, Fallawater, Rambo, Astrachan Red, Carolina Red June, Early 

 Harvest, and many other varieties I might mention, which meet with universal ap- 

 proval, are all marked. Just as many other varieties have their friends and advocates, 

 bat are not generally adopted by orehardists in this part, of the country. I could not 

 how 1 was to obviate this difficulty without writing a book, explaining their nice 

 dbtioetlons, of likes and dislikes, soil, exposure, etc., which I have nol the spire time to 

 do. Now, whilst the pear on quince (except the Bartlett and a few oth r varieties) docs 

 universally well with me, on timber land, well drained, cay loam soil, with hard clay 

 subsoil ; it utterly fails on the black prairie soil ; and yet I have given most of the list 

 my mark of approval, and so the thing runs throughout my report, and yet it is true, 

 with such explanationsas might be given in each case. 



We have no commercial orchards 'now in bearing, and but few prospectively, and I 

 have the only orchard iu the eounty, and it is only three years planted, and hardly largo 

 enough to be designated as such. 



We have comparatively no apples this year, and the few specimens vouchsafed to us 

 are very inferior. 



Pi scfa crop good. Some rot with the early varieties; medium and late generally sound. 

 Quality very good. Size of fruit only fair to very fair. 



My grape crop was good, foliage and fruit; free from all disease, except a small speck 

 of rot on Hartford, Concord and Iona, which entirely disappeared in a day or two, doing 

 little or no damage to the fruit. 



Early May and May Duke clicrrries gave us no fruit this year, and the Old Morello is 

 about played out. 



Raspberry and strawberry crops good with me ; never better in quantity and quality 

 of fruit ; but the general crop was not good. The White grape currant is the only va- 

 riety that bear; a full crop this season. All others, from about one-fourth to none at all. 



Apples generally approved, except the following: 



\" r Admired —Autumnal Sweet Swaar, Bullock's Pippin, Danver's Winter Sweet, 

 Dyer, Fall Orange, Father Abraham, Fall Swaar of the West, Harrison, lfawley, Haw- 

 thornden, High Top Sweeting, Hocking, Hurlbut, Jersey Sweeting, Eirkbridge White, 

 Ladies'" Sweeting, May of Myers, Melon, Slinkier, Michael Henry Pippin, Northern 

 Sweet, Paradise Winter Sweet, Peck's Pleasant, Perry Russet, Ramsdcll's Sweet, Red 

 Russet, Sangamon Red Streak, Sine qua non, Spark's Late, Swaar, Yellow Ingestrie. 



Rejected — King of Tompkins County, Porter, Pryor's Red, Rhode Island Greening. 



PEAR LIST. 



Nor Admired — Beurre Langelier, Chaumoutel, Dearborn's Seedling, Kirtland, Napo- 

 leon, Waterloo. Tin- rest approved. 



I'i:\. iiks Approved — Columbia, Crawford's Early, Crawford's Late, Early Tillotson, 

 Early York, George IV, Grossc Btlgnonne, Hale's Early, Heath Cling, Honest John 

 (yellow), Jacque's Rareripe, Large Early York, Lemon Cling Stone, Late Admirable, 

 Morris 1 White, Oldmlion Free, Oldmlzon Cling, President, Smock, stump the World, 

 Troth's Early Red, Yellow Rareripe. 



Ciiekiues Aim-roved — Early Richmond, May Duke, English Morello, Common Mo- 

 rello, Heine Hortense. 



GbapBS AfphovBD — Clinton, Concord, Delaware, Hartford Prolific, Iona, Ives' Seed- 

 ling. 



