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willing to give up fruit raising, and although results have not always 

 come out as anticipated still the thirty years' experience has not 

 been in vain. 



I started my orchard with forty-eight trees and planted with one 

 or two exceptions from one to four dozens of apple trees every year, 

 having after seventeen years' work only 164 living. 



In determining the hardiness for root stock of our acclimated 

 varieties, we are beset with one difficulty, and that is the long perit)d 



The Flagstad residence and lawn. 



"between our test winters, as stock grown from seed of the acclimated 

 kinds will survive the average cold winters of this state. 



It is now thirty years since we began to plant seed, but owing to 

 the fact that we bought the apples we did not know what varieties 

 they were — presumably they were raised in a milder climate than 

 ours, for in the spring of 1884 the seedlings had all left for the 

 happy hunting grounds. 



We began again as soon as we got seed- of our own orchard, 

 with a carefully kept record — also using plats and stakes — of the 



