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7. Not a bud of the Transcendent injured; Hyslop a little 

 colored; Whitney No. 20 is good; Lake's Winter all right; and 

 the Calendar (new) is all right; the longest of any all winter, 

 good and handsome, a seedling of Mathews' Russet and Web's 

 Winter Crab. 



8. I have to- day visited the seedling orchard of Mawhinney, 

 of Lind, town twenty-one, range twelve, east, and find the Lind^ 

 Mawhinney, Baxter, Walla Walla, Garfield Sweet, Lagon's Sweet, 

 and Helen, very little injured. These are from seed of Alexan- 

 der, exceiJt Helen, which is a very large and showy apple, good 

 quality and took first premium at our fair. The Mawhinney^ 

 Helen, and Lind are all winter. 



I have also visited the Wrightraan orchard and find the Wright- 

 man Blush, Waupaca, Martha, Weyauwega, and Alden very 

 little colored in the ends of cions; his Flora and Wrightman 

 more discolored. Find also the Mathews' Russet and the Rich 

 Greening very little injured. And I have not found a tree of 

 the new apples I have spoken of injured to any extent. I 

 visited and cut cions from Manning's Red, a nice, large, conical, 

 red apple; just a bud or two of the ends of the cions were col- 

 ored. These latter are all winter except Waupaca and Martha, 

 which keep to mid winter. 



9. The standard trees I have tried in most every soil from 

 sand to clay, exposed and also with slight protection. The Maw- 

 hinney orchard is nearly on a level, on gravelly loam, with no 

 protection; the Wrightman orchard has a west protection of 

 native oaks, is a large orchard, and slopes quite heavily to the 

 south, which I regard as the worst kind of protection; the land 

 is very stony, with large boulders and bunch grass growing on 

 the land in its original state. The Mathews, Wilson's Sweet, 

 and Rich's Greening are on the same kind of soil, but sloping a 

 trifle to the north, with no protection excei)t from surrounding 

 orchard. 



10. Strawberries are all right where there was snow. Rasp- 

 berries were badly injured above the snow line. Blackberries 

 that were laid down are all right. Grapes are covered yet and 

 all right. 



We have many new varieties of apples in this county that are 

 large, attractive, and good, but I have not had time to see them 

 all. The prospect is not good for a large crop of apples. 



