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age, is productive. It is inclined to grow a very heavy top and needs 

 much pruning when young. The seeds of this tree were planted by 

 J. J. Hatch, in the town of lola, Waupaca county, in the year 1849. 

 The first scions were cut in 1873. It is doing well in parts of Iowa and 

 Minnesota; is a fine, strong grower; bears very large green apples 

 of fair quality, which keep well through the winter; by some it is 

 thought to be the best winter apple for Wisconsin and similar lati- 

 tudes. I visited the original tree in November, 1898. 



The Avista is another winter seedling, and with me has been the 

 most profitable winter apple I have ever raised, because it furnishes 

 the apples and that every year. It furnished apples for the Centen- 

 nial in 1876; also for the New Orleans Exposition and World's Fair in 

 Chicago, and a peck from the old tree was taken to the Exposition 

 at Omaha the present season. Season, December to March; very 

 good in quality; fair size, and tree very hardy. The old tree has 

 borne thirty-one consecutive crops. It was the only winter apple 

 that bore for me the summers after the winters of '72 3 and '84-5, 

 which were severe tests. If pruned much to force growth when 

 young, it blights some, but if let alone is free from that disease. 

 The seeds were brought from Vermont and planted near West 

 Salem in 1858. It commenced bearing in 1868. John S. Harris thinks 

 it a valuable winter apple for Minnesota. The old tree shows plenty 

 of fruit buds for a crop next season. 



The Eureka is another very hardy winter apple. It is a seedlingf 

 of the Tallman Sweet and is sweet. It is of good size, and with age, 

 on my soil, is productive. The trees of this variety produced the 

 second largest number of bushels the present season in my orchard 

 of winter apples. 



The Wolf River is by far the largest and handsomest seedling 

 apple that has been disseminated from Wisconsin. It figured 

 prominently in eight or nine state exhibits at the Omaha Exposition. 

 It was generally scattered over the northern states from the New 

 Orleans Exposition, where it took in all twenty-five dollars in cash 

 premiums, more than any other one variety. It is hardy and, with 

 age, quite productive. The seeds were planted in 1849, in Waupaca 

 county. Wis., by Wm. A. Springer, whose likeness was the frontis- 

 piece of our annual report in 1897; he claimed it grew from seeds of 

 the Alexander, which it resembles very much, but it is not inclined 

 to blight. 



The McMahon is a late fall apple and among the hardiest and 

 handsomest seedling apples Wisconsin has produced. It is also 

 claimed that this tree grew from seeds of the Alexander, which it 

 resembles only in size, being of a white color. It is fair in quality 

 and like all I have named bears heavier as it grows older. It is not 

 a first-class shipper, as the skin is tender, and it shows brusies very 

 quickly. This tree is doing well in many places in Minnesota, where 

 it has been bearing for many years. These seeds were planted 

 about 1860, and first scions cut in 1871. 



The present season I have found a very handsome red seedling 

 apple. In shape it resembles the old Bellflower. It has borne 

 three consecutive summers and is full of fruit buds for next year. 

 In season it is late fall. I have no doubt of its productiveness, and 



