330 GENERAL HISTORY. 



Fruit plantations have been generally successful. Mr. Chubb, of Lisbon, 

 packed one thousand barrels of apples from his orchard last year. He has 

 also five acres of peach trees that never fail of a crop, even after the hardest 

 winters. 



The cash received for apples in the townships of Wright, Talmadge and 

 Chester for the year 1885 was about 8-i0,000. Most of the early planted trees 

 were seedlings, but they have since generally been grafted with improved va- 

 rieties. 



The Ottawa County Agricultural Society was organized at Eastmanvilleon 

 February 20th, 185G. 



In 18G8 Jacob Ganzhorn, secretary of the Western Michigan Lake Shore 

 Horticultural Association (a society then but recently organized) reports: 

 ''An Isabella grape-vine four years old, growing in the village of Spring Lake, 

 bore in 1868 one hundred pounds of fruit. A Concord vine of the same age 

 though in another garden, bore forty-two pounds, and a Clinton along side of 

 it, one hundred pounds. A four-year-old Catawba, in the same garden, 

 trained against a building, and covering a space about sixteen feet high and 

 twenty-four feet wide, bore one hundred pounds." 



In giving the statistics of fruit culture in the immediate vicinity of Spring 

 Lake it is stated that not more than five per cent of what is planted bore this 

 season, yet the product amounted to $37,105.80. 



" All kinds of fruits mentioned in these statistics (as far as tested) succeed 

 exceedingly well in this section, and all bore full crops this season, except 

 the apple, which is estimated to have produced one-third of an average crop." 



Catalogue of tested fruits recommended by the Western Michigan Lake 

 Shore Association: — 



Apples — Summer: Ked Astrachan, Early Harvest, Keswick Codlin, Pri- 

 mate, Porter. Fall : Maiden's Blush, Rambo, Fall Pippin, Autumn Straw- 

 berry. Winter: Baldwin, Ehode Island Greening, Wagener, Esopus Spitzen- 

 burg, Golden Russet, Fameuse, Yellow Belflower, Red Canada, Monmouth 

 Pippin, Lady apple, Talman Sweeting, Roxbury Russet. As promising well 

 but not sufficiently tested : Tompkins King, Winesap, Cooper's Market, Hub- 

 bardston, Dominie, Swaar, Green Sweet. 



Pears — Standard: Bartlett, Angouleme, Louise Bonne, of Jersey. Dwarf: 

 Angouleme, Louise Bonne of Jersey, White Doyenne, Glout Morceau, Vicar, 

 Seckei, Butfum, Urbaniste. 



Cherries — Mazzards: Black Tartarian, Knight's Early Black, Bigarreau, 

 Governor Wood. Dukes and Morellos : Early Richmond, May Duke, Belle 

 Magnifique. 



Peaches — Early Crawford, Early Barnard, Hale's, Smock (free), Late Craw- 

 ford, Morris' White, Jacques. 



Quinces — Orange. 



Crab apples — Red and Yellow Siberian, Hyslop. 



Grapes — Concord, Delaware. 



Currants — Red Dutch. As promising, but not yet tested : Cherry, Ver- 

 saillaise. White Grape. 



Black Currants — Black Naples. 



Gooseberries — Houghton. 



Raspberries — Doolittle's Black-cap, Philadelphia. 



Strawberries — Wilson (best for market), Agriculturist, French. 



The report of the county agricultural society for 18G8 says the apple crop 

 is small, the peach crop very large. 



