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He says the losses were about one hundred trees during the last 
season, consisting of eight or ten varieties of long keeping winter 
forts that proved to be tender, even when top grafted on hardy 
seedlings. 
Though the loss was considerable it was less than anticipated, 
some thirty other long keeping varieties promise well, giving as- 
surance of the final success of this undertaking. 
He has secured about forty varieties of the best apple trees that 
the country affords, and set these in alternate rows with the Iron- 
clads, but of these none but the best in quality, so that in this or- 
chard there is nothing to adulterate, and in the hybridizing we 
cannot fail to produce something extra, combining more good qual- 
ities than anything yet produced. The orchard contains seven 
hundred and sixty trees, doing well, except in a few instances 
cited. 
Strawberries have been set between the rows, mostly crescent 
seedlings and green prolific—our choice of all the ‘strawberries, as 
they stand without protection, and yield the greatest abundance of 
fruit. 
There are about five hundred grape vines set, of sixty or seven- 
ty named sorts, and about two hundred seedlings. There is also 
large space and plenty of vines to continue extending the grounds 
the next season, together with a few varieties of raspberries, black- 
berries and strawberries now on hand. 
There are about three hundred and fifty pear trees growing 
mostly on mountam ash stocks, including a great many of the 
best varieties that could be procured, regardless of cost. 
The American and European mountain ash were used as a stock 
to graft upon, and each variety of pear has been grafted on both 
of the mountain ash. The result is that every pear grafted on the 
European ash was killed last winter, and also many on the Amer- 
ican ash. Several varieties on the American mountain ash have 
done well, making fine growth the past season, showing conclu- 
sively that some varieties of the pear can be grown when grafted 
on the American mountain ash, on which the cions grow as readi- 
ly as on the pear stock. 
The American mountain ash is a tree that stops growing early 
in the fall, and the pears grafted on it are also compelled to stop 
growing and get ready for winter. 
Pears on pear roots or on European mountain ash continue to 
grow late in the fall, and do not ripen their wood. So strong is 
my faith in pear culture on Ameriean mountain ash stocks that I 
