STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 309 



FROM A. G. TUTTLE. 



Baraboo, Wis. 



Mr. Tiittle writes of tlie Russian varieties of apples in his 

 orchard and nursery that they are "O. K. in bud and twig; Rus- 

 sian cions bright; on Duchess nearly all first buds killed." 



Mr. Tuttle says: "I shall not be able to give you any report 

 on cranberries. I am not as well posted as my son who has for 

 several years lived upon the marsh and made thorough improve- 

 ments; I hoped he would send you a paper for your report." 



By permission of Mr. Tuttle we clip the following from Farm, 

 Stock and Home. 



FRUITS AND THE PAST WINTER. 



BY A. G. TUTTLE. 



Thinking you might be glad to hear from Wisconsin as to the 

 condition in which the past very severe winter has left us, I 

 have made an examination of the various fruits. I find a show 

 of more injury than I have ever seen at this season of the year. 

 The fruit buds of all the common apples, except Wealthy, Duch- 

 ess, and Tetofsky, are mostly destroyed, and the inner bark of 

 the terminal growth more or less colored. I made a thorough 

 examination of one of my Russian orchards, comprising eighty 

 varieties of new Russian apples, and found the fruit buds unin- 

 jured and all the wood growth in perfect condition. 



I have three hundred Duchess in orchard, making a magnifi- 

 cent show. Fruit wood growth and fruit buds all right. Had 

 we needed any further evidence of the extreme hardiness of Rus- 

 sian apples, their condition after such a winter, as compared 

 with other apples, ought to satisfy anyone. 



I find most of the roses, well covered with hay and also with 

 snow, dead to the ground; something I have never known be- 

 fore, even after our coldest winters. 



Raspberries generally destroyed. Blackberries badly used up 

 above the snow line. Ancient Briton proving hardier (as it did 

 the winter previous) than Snyder or Stone's Hardy. 



The prospect for cranberries is most excellent. The vines are 

 in good condition, having been covered with water and snow 

 through all the severe cold weather of winter. A very large crop 

 is looked for. 



