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3. Duchess, Wealthy aud Tetofsky have sustained the least 

 injury. 



4. Wood is discolored above snow line. 



5. Better than most common standards. 



6. No. 



7. Beach's Sweet, Early Strawberry, Virginia, Whitney 

 No. 20, Orange, Maiden's Blush, and Minnesota look very well. 

 These, with Duchess, Wealthy and Tetofsky, will probably over- 

 come their injuries enough to make profitable trees. 



8. Have examined none but what have the last year's growth 

 discolored. 



9. Clay subsoil; a little sand in soil; elevated location; no 

 protection. 



10. Grapes covered, think all right; strawberries, where cov- 

 ered, are good; currants in good shape; raspberries and black- 

 berries injured to the snow line; Turner seems to stand it best 

 of the raspberries. A poor prospect for a good crop of fruit this 

 year. Plums look very well. 



P. S. — Inclosed find membership fee to Horticultural Society. 



FEOM FREMONT, WISCONSIN. 



W. A. Springer, of Fremont, Wis., under date of April 3d, 

 writes: I have spent to-day in several orchards to be able to 

 answer your questions. 



1. The past winter has injured almost all our standard vari- 

 eties, in that the ends of the cions are colored; some more and 

 some less. The Snow, Russet, Haas, Walbridge, Fall Orange, 

 Winter Red, Plum Cider, Pewaukee, and many others, one-half 

 or more of the cions badly colored or dead; Culvert, Ben Davis, 

 Maiden Blush, and some other cions, all dead, and the bark on 

 large limbs and trunk discolored, also the wood. Many trees 

 will never leave out. 



2. I know of no variety of the standard sorts that have uot 

 received some injury to the ends of cions. 



3. The Duchess, Tetofsky, Fall Orange, Wolf River, and 

 Wealthy, if they may be called standard, are very little in- 

 jured. 



4. Have already described injury. 



5. Have few Russians; Duchess, Tetofsky, and Alexander, 

 very little injured. 



6. I do not know of a bearing standard tree that some of the 

 -cions are not injured. 



