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La Crescent, where we find one of the oldest orchards in the 

 State, and the one that produced the fruit that carried off the 

 most blue ribbons, and lastly at E. Wilcox & Sons, La Crosse, 

 where we first found Moor's Arctic Plum (and many other good 

 things). 



Dr. T. H. Haskins, ISTewport, Vt., writes me under date of 

 Dec. 21, 1881: "I should think Moore's Arctic would be a bonanza 

 to you. It is a/acf (why, I don't understand,) that the curculio 

 does not touch the fruit of Moore's Arctic, though they abso- 

 lutely riddle the red plums alongside. I never saw a single 

 curculio mark on a Moore's Arctic plum, and I eat them by the 

 peck. Still it is so strange, that I should not be surprised to hear 

 that they go for them elsewhere. Yet they say the same as I do 

 of them in IsTorthern Maine where they originated, and in the 

 adjoining province of ^ew Brunswick, where one man (F. P. 

 Sharp, of Woodstock,) shipped 2,000 bushels last year." We 

 reached Madison late in the night, and put up at the Capitol 

 House, where we found first-class accommodations and courteous 

 treatment. After enjoying a well-prepared breakfast we reached 

 the horticultural rooms before the convention was called to order, 

 and enjoyed the pleasure of renewing our acquaintance with the 

 veterans of Wisconsin's pomology, viz.: J. M Smith, of Green 

 Bay; A. Gr. Tuttle, of Baraboo; J. C. Plumb, and others. Soon 

 after the convention was called to order by Pres. J. M. Smith, 

 the Minnesota representatives were elected honorary members 

 and invited to take part in the discussions, which they proceeded 

 to do, with the exception perhaps of your ''modest member," 

 whose silence was no doubt thought to be grand. At the close 

 of the morning session we were taken in charge by A. G. Tuttle 

 for the balance of our stay in Madison and most royally enter- 

 tained. The only exception to this was during the afternoon 

 session of the last day of the convention, when Secretary Wm. 

 Trelease invited the Minnesota representatives, Pres. Smith, 

 Hon. M. Anderson, B. S. Hoxsie and others to take tea with him 

 at his private residence in the city. This was an enjoyable oc- 

 casion. Prof. Trelease and his amiable wife know how to enter- 

 tain such a party in right royal style. One object is, and of 

 right should be, in sending delegates to other societies to com- 

 pare notes, and keep up a friendly interchange of practical 

 ideas and business relations. Keeping this in view, and believ- 

 ing, in Minnesota at least, the apple to be the fruit of all 

 fruit for our climate, I could conceive of nothing that I could 



