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weather and perhaps insufficient cultivation. I like a thrifty two 

 year old the best, or even a No. 1 one year old. The three Loudon 

 raspberry plants sent me from the Thayer Fruit Farm were re- 

 ceived in apparently fine condition and were set immediately in the 

 best place I could find; two of them failed to grow (perhaps there 

 was too much manure in the soil), the third plant made a growth of 

 about five feet. It resembles the Turner in growth, except in that it 

 has several branches from two to three feet long and is entirely 

 free from disease. 



Of apples I have had so little fruit, I suppose I ought not to say 

 much, but of the trees, most of the Russians are looking good; the 

 Hibernal is especially good, as is also the Romna — thej' seein to be 

 identical. The Yellow Fawns (possibly this is Yellow Transparent, 

 but I think not) is also especially promising. In the orchard, where 

 full}'^ exposed to the winds, it had the most perfect foliage of any, 

 but in the nursery, closelj' shut in by the willows and other trees, it 

 had verj' poor foliage. (I have some fruit for the winter meeting). 

 Tills indicates that this variety, like numbers of others, will do bet- 

 ter in a wind}', exposed place. My experience with the Wealthy is 

 rather the reverse of this. 



The Juicy White is also a good tree and a fine eating, early apple. 

 The Antonvoka is also a promising apple for this section. It is a 

 rather slow grower, but the tree ranks with the Duchess in hardi- 

 ness, and the wood is very hard and firm, resembling the crabs in 

 this respect. Patten's Greening, Okabeua and Peerless do not show 

 any weakness, except, perhaps, that of hardiness. Patten's is, per- 

 haps, the hardiest of the three; the Peerless seems to ripen its wood 

 better as the trees get older. Thompson's seedlings seem to rank 

 with those above mentioned in point of ability to stand cold, but ap- 

 parently lack adaptabilitj'^ and are on the decline. Judson looks the 

 best at present. One of the last named trees bore a few small, gnarly 

 apples this season. None of them are promising here. Hotchkisis 

 a poor tree, as also is Scott's Winter; Daisj'^ is better but lacks hardi- 

 ness. Compton's No. 3 is a scraggj'^ growing crab, but is promising. 

 Of Gideon's seedlings, the Martha has been growing here for nine 

 years. It is a nice tree but does not bear any yet. The following 

 varieties, two small trees of a kind, were set in the spring of 1891 in 

 a densely sheltered place and were feeble and much subject to leaf 

 blight, or leaf scab, the first two or three years, or until I thinned 

 out the surrounding trees and let the wind in, viz.: Excelsior, 

 hardiness 10, condition good, one tree dead. August, one tree dead, 

 other tree in fair condition and getting better each year; it may 

 not be quite hardj'^ enough. Florence, hardiness 10, condition good 

 — with me this is the most promising of Gideon's seedlings with 

 the possible exception of the Martha; Peter,hardiuess 7 or 6, one tree 

 dead— this tree grew the best of the lot the first three years, the 

 remaining trees now begin to look aged. Martha, hardiness 10. (one 

 tree dead) promising, condition good; Gideen's No. 6, hardiness 6^ 

 condition of trees not very good; Grarey, hardiness 6, condition 

 of tree rather poor, (one tree dead); Januarj% hardiness 7, not 

 promising; September, hardiness 8, condition feeble (one tree dead). 

 These trees were all growing on well enriched land and well cared 



