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has twenty-five or thirty Russian varieties; his trees have borne 

 well and some of the fruit is of fair quality. I have watched 

 his trees with much interest and have never found trees that 

 were more healthy or prolific; the fruit is large. There is the 

 Yellow Tiansparent that I have known a number of years which 

 bears freely and fruit of good quality. 



Mr. Corlett. Mr. President, in the spi'ing of 1880, I procured 

 forty- three varieties of Russians from Prof. Budd; I divided the 

 collection with five neighbors, living in Clayton County, by his 

 request, so as to test them on different kinds of soil. Some had tim- 

 ber, oak openings, some hazel-brush land, some rather broken 

 and near sink holes, and three of the parties had rich [)rairie 

 soil. My own is what is called high prairie, and is n ; ir the 

 Milwaukee road, a short distance west of McGiegor. I e;ui only 

 speak from memory as I did not bring my list of varieties; but 

 of the kinds set in 1880 of those that bore last year wer > Xo-i. 

 544, and 210, Xo. 61, known as Red Streaked, Nos. 19, 437, 

 262; of this number 19, 262 and 61, this past sea.son the limSs had 

 to be propped, as they bore such an immen.se crop. No. 544 seams 

 to be a .shy bearer; it has borne for three years. It is an early 

 winter apple and we have kept the fruit till January 22il. Of 

 the forty-three varieties I planted myself Xo-s. 185, 262 and 252 

 blighted; Nos. 19 and 230 are the only ones in the collection that 

 blight now. Nos. 288, 316, 337, 15 (Moscow), 230 and 387 are 

 the finest trees I ever saw. 



Previous to the time of applying for the Russians I had about 

 one hundred varieties in my orchard. I have grown success- 

 fully in times past such varieties as Dominie, Early Harvest, 

 Soi)s of Wine, Winter Winesap, Ben Davis. Benonia, Seckler's 

 Red and have none of those kinds left now, and my only hoi^e is 

 in the Rus.sians. When I heard these letters of Mr. Tuttle and 

 Prof. Budl read I began to think I was on the right track, but on 

 hearing this report from Mi*. Brand I don't know what to say 

 about it. 



From where I live I can see into seven townships; the ridge 

 inclines a little to the west, somewhat steep to the north, and 

 not so much to the south. North of me one of -these varieties 

 has borne two years, and it is thought a great deal of; I 

 don't know the number of the variety. There are some eight 

 or tm of these that have borne, and some of them are evi- 

 <lently winter apples. I set my first orchard in 1856, and as 

 that failed I have concluded our only salvation was in the 



