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the result that has been achieved in the twenty-five years, the 

 cost, value of the necessary stock, the annual renewal of the 

 sick trees and those that died, I have to confess that my courage 

 has not been so enduring as that of many of my horticultural 

 friends. It is true, the crab varieties have furnished considera- 

 ble fruit. At one time the Wealthy gave great hopes, and the 

 exhibit at N'ew Orleans of that apple will long be remembered. 

 The exhibit of Amber cane syrup was close to the apple exhibit. * 

 I heard many remarks that Minnesota must be a good place to 

 live. 



I bought trees and set many of them. To day I have not a 

 good Wealthy left. Duchess have stood with me better than 

 Wealthy but the Duchess are prematurely old. I notice dead 

 spots on the trunks, that effect the limbs. I found after the sap 

 had begun to go up freely in the spring there came after a few 

 days a cold night, and I found the bark raised from the wood by 

 the sap freezing. The wood began to have a yellow appearance, 

 nearly dry for want of sap. Hence it seems to me the trunks 

 must have protection in this climate. 



What shall I say about three hundred Ben Davis, a variety 

 that once was noted iron-clad by our Society; also HaasFamuse, 

 and a long list of trees that are hardly mentioned at present? 



I have only a skeleton of the seven acres of the Transcendent 

 crop. I think there are thirty-eight alive but they are not pro- 

 ducing paying crops as formerly. They were set about twenty - 

 one years ago; are ten inches in diameter. One Transcendent top 

 worked with Whitney bore quite a crop the past season. Of the 

 Whitney, six trees 'are dead or nearly so, and seven other trees 

 are in very fair condition. They are apt to split if they are 

 allowed to fork in training; with me not a very early bearer. 

 Of thirty Hyslop set twenty-one years ago three trees produced 

 two and a half bushels the past season; balance gone. Ont of 

 four Beech's Sweet two remain, looking pretty well; have borne 

 well. Of twenty Stewart Sweet have two sprouts left that bore 

 a few ai)ples the past year. Early Strawberry, six planted, 

 three of them alive; two of them have borne large crops every 

 other year for many years. Wheeler's Red Winter, eight trees 

 bore two barrels the past season, the first for many years to 

 amount to anything. Of five trees of Hutchinson's Sweet only 

 one remains; considerable blight on that. Nine Fall Orange, 

 none of them healthy, most of them dead. Two Virginia Crabs, 

 rather young trees, have borne some fruit for many years. 



