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to market as fast as possible. My Wealthies and part of my Whit- 

 neys No. 20, I sold in Minneapolis, others T sold in La Crosse, 

 Rochester, Eau Claire and Wausaw. Although the general com- 

 plaint in this section was that the frost had killed all the fruit, 

 when time for marketing came it was found that the high lands of 

 La Crosse and Vernon counties, in Wisconsin, and Houston county, 

 in Minnesota, weresupplymg an abundance of fine fruit for the La 

 Crosse market. 



I set about four thousand grafts in the spring of 1882, of the 

 following varieties: My three winter seedlings. Duchess, Wealthy » 

 McMann's White, Tetofsky, Whitneys No. 20, Utter and Orange. 

 Set five hundred trees in orchard, which all grew but four; they 

 consisted of Duchess, Wealthy, Pewaukee, Waulbridge, Fameuse, 

 Golden Russet, McMann's White, and Whitneys No. 20. Will 

 set about the same number in spring of 1883, of the same varieties, 

 adding Atwood and two other seedlings, also Wolf River of my 

 own, and in addition will set of Minnesota seedlings, the Rollins 

 Russet and Elgin Beauty. For trial, last fall I put in about five 

 hundred buds, using for stocks. Transcendent, White Arctic, Whit- 

 neys No. 20, and Duchess. Budded my sweet seedlings — Blue 

 Pearmain, Herfordshire Pearmain, Sops of Wine, Pewaukee, Rawle's 

 Janet, Willow Twig and some winter seedlings from the western 

 part of this county; so you will readily discover I am after more 

 winter apples. 



I fruited the past season the Doylestown, a seedling of Columbia 

 county, Wisconsin, and the Wolf River, a seedling of Waupacca 

 county, Wisconsin, for the first time, and am well pleased with the 

 fruit and trees of both kinds. 



In my travels for observation this winter, I found a seedling 

 tree in an adjoining town that was set in 18.52, thirty years ago; 

 Never had a knife or saw used on it; bears a small winter 

 apple of good quality for cooking; bore in 1880, twenty-five 

 bushels, and 1881, thirty bushels; but the frost killed the bloom 

 in 1882. But the tree looks fine, is about fifteen inches in diameter. 

 Will watch it next season, and if I consider it of value, will 

 propagate and report. 



Found one man that when he settled here twenty-three years 

 ago, was so determined to raise fruit, that he walked in two days, 

 over seventy miles and carried seventy, one and three-year old 

 trees home on his back, and some of those trees are still bearing 

 good crops. 



I find the Tallman sweet and St. La:vrence, are staying with the 



