STATE HORTICULIURAL SOCIETY. 331 



FROM E. WILCOX. 



La Crosse, April 15, 1883. 

 Your circular asking for report of condition of fruit trees, plants, 

 etc, received to-day. In our orchard at this place nearlj^ all kinds 

 are uninjured. This is true also in the nursery of Duchess. Tetofski, 

 and the crabs, except a few of the Whitney where the bark burst 

 at the ground. The Wealthy, Utter, Hass, and Walbridge but 

 slightly injured. Rhodes Seedling all right. Atwood Seedling is 

 badly hurt. We have another seedling I am pleased with. More 

 about this one at another time. Strawberry plants are looking 

 fine. Raspberries killed back some. Prospects for apples, with 

 me, I consider good. I am a little chary about giving opinions 

 thus early, knowing from bitter experience how easy it is to be 

 mistaken, and perhaps my present opinion will need to be changed 

 later in the season. 



FROM G. p. PEFFER. 



Pewaukee, Wis., April 12, 1883'. 

 Yes, there are funerals all around here in fruit trees. This winter 

 used up most all the pear trees, Flemish Beauty not excepted^ 

 Winter Nellis seems all right yet, and so are a few of my best seed- 

 lings; three as good in bud and wood as crabs. About the Russian 

 apples I have only got about fourteen sorts. A few of them the new 

 wood colored some, same as Fameuse, Haas, Plumb's Cider, Pewau- 

 kee, and Walbridge, but most of them all right. All my cherry 

 trees, E, Richmond, Kentish, Eng. M]'rrillo, E.May, and Common 

 Pie, wood all good, but blossoms killed. Plums, Desoto, Miner, 

 Weaver, and Early August, blossoms good ; but Imperial Gage, 

 Lombard, Duane Purple, N. Orleans, T'ellow and Purple Egg, are 

 hurt on the tips of new wood, and blossoms killed. On pear blos- 

 soms we can not tell yet, but the Birkett (that Illinois seedling) 

 seem all right in wood and blossoms. I find wood all sound on 

 only seven varieties, and five out of them are seedlings of the 

 Northwest. We had again started with forty-two varieties; nine 

 all dead, ten nearly so, and balance are recoverable? Weather 

 fine; frost nearly all out. Shall commence digging to-morrow. 



