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"Very large, oftentimes two inches in diameter, roundish oblate, skin 

 bright yellow, and flesh even a deeper golden still, fine graine-^, juicy, 

 mild, subacid, almost sweet : ripens in August here. Sweet Eussett is a 

 large and valuable crab, considered the finest summer crab in Richland 

 county, Wisconsin. Winter Golden Sweet is also from Wisconsin, is of 

 large size, flesh fine grained, juicy, rich, sweet, a peculiar condensed 

 sweet, seldom found in any apple, entirely free from astringency. 

 North Star is a fine hardy crab from Minnesota, large as Transcendant 

 and two weeks earlier, of perfect quality for eating from the hand. 

 Tree is only a moderate grower, but hardy and immensely productive. 

 Golden Beauty of Paradise is simply a native crab of uniisnal size and 

 possessed of all the astringency of its class ; a remarkably strong- 

 grower, and of iron-clad hardiness ; where it is desired to double work, 

 to increase hardiness, nothing better can be found. 



Pears, though so generally decried as of no value for the west^ we 

 have continued planting uninteruptedl^', and while we have met with 

 discouragements inumerable, have not lacked for an ample home supply 

 of excellent fruit. Early Harvest is a hardy tree, and extremely hardy 

 bears a most beautiful fruit, in quality about equal to a well-ripened 

 turnip. Brickett, to our surprise, bears quite early, of small to medium 

 size, of quite fair quality, mild, pleasant, but without well defined 

 character. The wood of trees that make a late growth is badly dis- 

 colored after 32 degrees below zero. Has shown no signs of blight 

 thus far. Mt. Vernon we value very highly; a strong grower, very 

 hardy, has never shown any trace of blight, while Bartlett in next row 

 were almost ruined. Does well both as a standard and dwarf, but is 

 not an early bearer, dwarf trees seven years old having borne the first 

 crop the past season. Medium size or above, clear russett, good 

 quality, and in their prime December 1. Jeflerson is a strong grower, 

 perfectly hardy, but not fruited sufiiciently to decide as to quality. Le 

 Conte is a vigorous grower of about the same degree of hardiness in 

 tree as the peach, but hardier in blossom. Trees six years old have 

 never shown a blossom, and such branches as were not cut back after 

 the recent severe winters are a mere shell, the heart being entirely 

 rotten. The same with top-grafts on Flemish Beauty, although such 

 fruited the past season ; quality about third rate. When cut back, it 

 grows up again as vigorous as the peach, and in this lattitude will prob- 

 ably require much the same general treatment ; ought not to be planted 

 this far north. Eutter is very promising; almost as strong a grower 

 as the Hybrid sand pears ; healthy, hardy, and bears early. Souvenier 

 de Congress is a moderate grower, and far less hardj^ than Bartlett; 



