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best, orchard in this county. It contains some four or five a oe : 
filled with the leading hardy trees, both of crab and standar 
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varieties. He has a number of trees which were purchased of A. ; 
W. Sias, of this city, sime fourteen years ago, that are now over — 
a foot in diameter. Last year his orchard was so heavily laden 
with fruit that many trees were seriously injured by the breaking 
of the limbs. His success in fruit growing may be readily seen 
from the crop of apples raised last year. He sold over $200 worth 
of apples, besides using a large quantity himself and manufactur- 
ing several barrels of cider. He also stored away sixteen barrels 
of fall and winter varieties of apples for his use during the winter. 
He cannot give an accurate statement of the number of bushels 
of apples produced, but says.that he had no difficulty in disposing 
of his Duchess at $4.00 per barrel, when imported apples were 
selling at $3.50. The Duchess are the most profitable apple grown, 
but they do not bear heavily only each alternate year. One tree, 
which* was laden the heaviest with fruit, produced apples 11% 
inches in circumference. 
The Fameuse or snow apple is an annual and heavy bearer and 
is a profitable tree. The standard apples are principally the fol- 
lowing, given in the order in which they ripen: Red Astrachan, 
Sops of Wine, Tetofsky, Duchess, Haas, St. Lawrence, Fameuse, 
Red Romanite, Greening and Russet. There are also two or three 
kinds of sweet apples raised. He has not suffered much loss from 
winter-killing, of the kinds named, and says he would plant again 
in the event of their being killed. The orchard when in full 
_ bloom, or later in the season when fairly groaning under its heavy 
load of delicious fruit, presents a fine appearance. It is almost 
enough to cause the average Minnesota farmer to break one of the 
commandments and covet his neighbor’s goods. The specimens 
of apples shown us by Mr. Cotterell, on the occasion of a recent 
visit, were very large and fine. We could scarcely help wishing 
that every farmer in the county had as good an orchard and was 
as comfortably situated. 
THE ROCHESTER NURSERY. 
From Rochester Record and Union, of July 27, 1877. 
We had occasion to call a few minutes one day this week, at the 
nursery of Mr. M. W. Cook, in East Rochester, and we were very 
agreeably surprised at the success he has attained in the cultiva- 
tion of small fruit and nursery stock. He was busy among his 
strawberry vines, of which he has about eight acres. He finds the 
growth of small fruit, in connection with his nursery, both a 
pleasant and profitable occupation. He has picked over two hun- 
dred bushels of strawberries this year, averaging from 300 to 700 
quarts daily during the picking season—all of which were sold at 
fifteen cents per quart. 
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