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the row. This was the system universally practiced in this section with the 

 newly-planted orchards, when the ground was in grass or crop. Cast your 

 eyes in any direction along the line of trees, and no variation was perceptible. 



Mr. Tompkins has 430 apple trees, mostly Golden Eusset, — a few Baldwins, 

 Greenings, and Wageners. They also were cultivated in strips planted to 

 corn. They had been set two years. The pruning in this orchard was badly 

 done, or not done at all. He could learn a valuable lesson in this branch of 

 horticulture by a visit to his neighbor Parmelee or Benjamin Montague. We 

 were told, however, that the trees were a refuse lot when purchased, and bought 

 at a low price, no others being available at time of planting. 



John Allison has a good orchard of small size, planted thirteen years. It was 

 found in clover sod ; it should have been cultivated. The trees were of large 

 size for the age, and in perfect health. Two rows were Northern Spy, and 

 extra fine specimens they were. A few trees of Esopus Spitzenburg were 

 noticed carrying an enormous crop free from codling moth. 



An orchard of about 100 trees set four years, owned by J. E. Savage, and 

 cultivated in strips, balance to clover, was found to be injured by the winter 

 to a greater extent in proportion to number of trees than any hitherto exam- 

 ined in this locality. Pruning bad here ; trees headed much too high ; would 

 refer him also to friend Parmelee for instruction as to proper mode of pruning. 



The last orchard examined in this vicinity was that of A. K. Montague, 

 about mid-way between Old Mission and Traverse City. It contained thirty 

 acres. All, or nearly all, was in crops of some kind — principally in corn and 

 potatoes, with a few acres to corn sown for fodder. The trees were nearly all 

 Golden Eusset, — had made a heavy growth, but many of them were in bad 

 shape, headed as much too low as the preceding one was too high, most of 

 them not more than two feet from the ground. Had the pruning been 

 properly done, this orchard would have ranked very high and held the Par- 

 melee orchard in close competition. 



Before taking leave of this promising fruit section, we must not omit to 

 mention the nursery establishment of C. P. Avery, a member of our Orchard 

 Committee. This is a new enterprise with friend Avery, whose modesty would 

 hardly allow us to mention his establishment at all were himself consulted; 

 nevertheless it is but justice to say we found several blocks of fine, thrifty, and 

 healthy trees which would do credit to many older and more extensive estab- 

 lishments. 



The jieople throughout this entire section are persistent and thorough in 

 their determination to hold in check or destroy the insect enemies to fruits 

 and trees. Hardly an orchard was seen without the bands for catching the 

 codling worm, and persons who neglect this precaution find neighbors willing 

 to do the work for them. Altogether it may be said of this region, as a fruit 

 section, it bids fair to equal, if not rival, many of the older and apparently 

 more favored portions of the State. It seems to be especially the home for the 

 apple and the pear, — many of our leading and most popular sorts attaining a per- 

 fection here unequaled in any other locality in our State. The Greening, the 

 Baldwin, the Golden Eusset, and many other sorts, are nowhere excelled. All 

 the smaller fruits, except the grape, perhaps, are grown as well as in many, and 

 better than in most other sections of the State. The grape was not up in 

 quality to those grown in the interior or the more southern localities, and still 

 the vineyard of Judge Eamsdell, at Traverse City, showed unmistakable evi- 

 dence, under his dexterous and careful management, of being a success. The 



