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1889. He also has Wolf River, Saxton, Astrachan and Talman 

 Sweet in bearing. Fox Lake is four miles long, one half mile wide 

 and from sixteen to eighteen feet deep. To the north of Mr. Web- 

 ber's orchard are some small lakes or ponds which never dry up, so 

 he is almost surrounded by water influence. On the south side of 

 the lake is the old orchard planted by Mr. A. M. Packard. Here are 

 about ten old Duchess, some of which bore fifteen bushels each in 

 1888 and had a good crop on in 1889. They are on level ground, 

 heads two to three feet from the ground. The best tree had eleven 

 limbs and all appeared to come out to a distance of from twelve to 

 fifteen inches and there seemed to be no one limb that could be 

 called the leader. These trees are in a hollow square entirely sur- 

 rounded by timber and on the west side of the orchard tee land de- 

 scends into a ravine sixty feet deap but this side has a thick growth 

 of young timber. In this orchard the Duchess has proved itself of 

 much more value than any of the Crabs or Hybrids. I saw the 

 remains of nearly one thousand Apple and Crab trees here and no 

 profit has ever and it seems to me never will be derived from any- 

 thing there but the Duchess and ihey have paid at the rate of one 

 thousand dollars per acre in a single year. In this county Mr. 

 John Clay has young trees of Wealthy bearing well. Another man 

 showed me four Wealthy trees, which produced ten bushels in 

 1888. They are on level prairie with a wind break on the east, west 

 and south but open on the north. On Pierce Lake are some Haas 

 trees large enough to bear twenty bushels each but they produce 

 none. 



A NEW RASPRERRY. 



On the grounds of Mr. M. L. Pope, of the town of Fox Lake, Mar- 

 tin county, a seedling black raspberry was found which promises to 

 be of great value. Mrs. Pope was very enthusiastic over it. It is 

 now in cultivation among other varieties, and I believe is later than 

 any black variety I know of. I was there July 10th and it was not 

 quite ripe. Arrangement was made to fruit it at my place. 



Mr. Pope was a pioneer on the prairie but his house, garden 

 and orchard — large groves and long li jes of tall trees which make 

 his farm one of the very finest in Martin county, all go to prove 

 that his time has been well sp^nt. 



At Fairmont Mr. W. H. Budd has a large number of new vari- 

 eties of grapes on trial. 



Mr. F. S. Livermore has had a large orchard enclosed by a large 

 grove. The Duchess has paid him well, but I noticed several fine 

 trees of Utters Red, which was also seen in other parts of the 

 county and in Nobles CDunty. 



Mrs. Matson, at Fairmont has a fine lot of Malinda and Beach's 

 Bed. At Winnebago Mr. G. D. Richardson accompanied me to 

 see an old seedling orchard four miles west on the south side of Elm 

 Creek. This orchard is on a level prairie and protected by a row of 

 Cottonwoods on the north, west and south. Many of the trees are 

 very large and bearing well but the fruit of the most of them 

 appeared to be small; about like Transcendent, although Mr. R. 

 claimed that some of them produced a sizable apple. The farm 



