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Weyauwega, has borne from a fair to a heavy crop of fruit every 

 year for the past fifteen years. The apple is a good keeper. The 

 Wrightraan's Blush is an excellent keeper and a good bearer. The 

 Flora the same. The Martha is a fair bearer but a slow grower. 

 The Waupaca, although a large, beautiful apple, and a great 

 grower, is not a great bearer. The other varieties not named are 

 all excellent trees and good bearers. 



THE BENNETT ORCHARD. 



This is at Royalton. Many of the varieties are very choice. 

 Ten of these, also, are exhibited this winter. Every tree is perfect 

 and all good bearers. Mr. Bennett has one of the best orchards in. 

 the county. It stands on a south-easterly slope. His seedlings are 

 mostly numbered. So I will say, nothing now of any except the 

 Bennett, which is a beauty, of excellent flavor, an abundant bearer 

 and one of the best market apples he has. 



THE WHINNEY ORCHARD. 



M. A. Whinney, at Lind, has about ten varieties of seedlings. 

 All the trees are healthy and are fine bearers. The Helen is a 

 keeper, and a free bearer. His orchard is on high ground, but level. 



THE GIBSON ORCHARD. 



This is also at Lind. Mr. Gibson has many very nice apples and 

 good trees. His Sprawler, as friend Plumb called it, is a keeper, a 

 good apple and a perfect tree. 



THE STREET ORCHARD. 



This is a seedling orchard set out thirty-three years ago, number- 

 ing one thousand trees. Many of them are choice apples and 

 good trees. 



THE BALCH ORCHARD. 



This is at Weyauwega and numbers over three hundred trees, 

 many of which are great bearers, and splendid trees, and the apples 

 good keepers. Ten varieties were shown at the Wisconsin meeting 

 at Green Bay, and Mr. Balcli has to-day in his cellar more apples 

 than any other man in the county. Though they lack color, and 

 in size are not up to others of which I have spoken, his trees on 

 the whole are a success. 



