I go 



WINM:SuTA STAll!. IIUKTICULTUKAL SOCIETY. 



this statement, which I believe to be true : that there are more 

 seedHng apple trees of note growing in Waupaca county than in 

 any other county in our central western states ; for which, this 

 the reason : 



Many of our early settlers were foreign people, with frugal 

 means, yet possessed of a love for and a desire to have apples. 

 Their means not permitting them to procure named sorts or nur- 

 sery trees, they resorted to the cheaper method of procuring good 



A WISCONSIN SEEDLING APPI,E TREE. 

 The largest Apple Tree in Waupaca County. Height 29 feet. Diameter, 43 feet. Age, 46 years. 



apples and planting their seeds, which in our sandy, rough and 

 stony timbered soils have done remarkably well, and they have 

 been stimulus or incentives to better efforts and the propagation 

 of the best ones amongst this multitude of seedlings. 



• Can one estimate the good these seedlings have done for the 

 poor emigrants who planted them? Within three miles from 

 where I am writing this article stands an old veteran seedling 



