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Principal cause believed to be winter killing. The Gregg, a new-black cap on 
trial, produced a few very fine berries, but the canes did not endure the previ- 
-ous winter as well as the Doolittle or Seneca. 
Currants. 
Owing to the low price this fruit has commanded in our market for a few 
years (the price in LaCrosse being 75 to 90 cents per bushel) their cultivation is 
being neglected and the bushes are left to fight their way with grass and weeds. 
Their yield was good but the quality not up to the usual standard. 
Red Cherries. 
These were a failure. Trees blossomed full but dropped most of the fruit be- 
tore ripe. 
Blackberries. 
This fruit is not very generally cultivated, most people looking to the woods 
and fence lines for a supply of small, hard fruit. The wild were mostly ruined 
by drouth. The Kitating froze nearly to the ground, and consequently fruited 
but little. The few small plantations of Snyder came through the winter all 
right ‘and produced an immense crop of fruit. Towards the last of the season 
they were very small, owimg to the drouth. Thisis the only variety that has 
thus far given any promise of succeeding with us. It is a first rate fruit, but 
only medium in size. 
Plums. 
The culture of the tame plum is mostly abandoned. Occasionally our farmer 
friends purchase a few rare varieties to accommodate traveling agents, but they 
all go up in smoke. The native is found under cultivation in most of our 
gardens and some of the varieties are fine. Crop immense. 
Grapes. 
Of this fruit the crop the largest and best we have ever raised. The vines 
-were unusually healthy and mostly free from insects. The crop in Houston 
county is estimated at over fifty tons, of which about fifteen were produced in 
LaCrescent, about fifteen in Hokah, twenty in Brownsdale. Of this quantity 
about twenty tons were sold in LaCrosse, ten to fifteen tons manufactured into 
wine and the remainder found a home market in our various small villages. 
The variety succeeding the best and most extensively grown is the Concord; the 
Clinton is grown in some vineyards for wine. A good variety that ripens earlier 
and one that will keep longer than the Concord is much desired to lengthen the 
season, 
Apples. 
Apparently apple trees were not materially injured by the previous winter, 
