POINTERS FROM THE SEEDLING FRUIT COMMITTEE. 265 
The new seedling gooseberry, Queen, is a healthy looking plant, 
and its fruit is extra large andclean. I hope it will retain its char- 
acteristics when tested in remote localities. The Loudon raspberry 
is bearing fruit here and we had an opportunity to pass upon its 
merits, the fruit having been left on in anticipation of our visit. I 
was well pleased with the looks of the plant and better pleased with 
the fruit, which I will describe as of the color of the Turner, a lively 
true scarlet, and conical in form. It is firm in texture, the size of 
the Cuthbert or slightly less. The flavor to my taste is a sugges- 
tion of the Turner, but slightly inferior to that standard of exquisite 
flavor in the red raspberry tribe. 
Considering also its productiveness and apparent hardiness, 
I believe this new raspberry marks another mile-post in advance 
of all the well known sorts. 
POINTERS FROM THE SEEDLING FRUIT COMMITTEE. 
J. S. HARRIS, CHAIRMAN. 
A.J. Philips’ Orchard, West Salem, Wis., Thayer’s Fruit Farms. Sparta, Wis., Loud- 
en’s New Seedling Raspberry, Janesville, Wis., etc. 
On the morning of July 11th,in company with Messrs. F. G. Gould 
and Chas. A. Sampson, of Excelsior, we visited the orchards of A. J. 
Philips, which are situated on the top of a bluff about six miles 
north of West Salem, Wis. The elevation where the orchards stand 
is from four hundred to five hundred feet above the bed of the Mis- 
sissippi and La Crosse rivers and has good air and water drainage 
in all directions. It occupies some twenty to thirty acres of ground. 
The leading varieties grown for market purposes are the Duchess 
of Oldenburg, Tetofsky, Wealthy, McMahon White and Whitney 
No. 20, but trees of fifty or more other varieties are growing in 
greater or less numbers and generally doing well. 
Mr. Philips is paying considerable attention to topworking some 
of the nearly hardy varieties upon the Virginia crab as a stock, and 
is meeting with gratifying success. The Utter,or Cooper, upon this 
stock so far a grand success; it makes a good union, is very produc- 
tive and free from blight. The Wealthy, Wolf River, Grimes’ Golden, 
Tetofsky, Haas, Northwestern Greening and several others are 
also doing better than upon their own roots and trunks, besides 
coming into bearing much earlier. The Malinda is fruiting on the 
third year after grafting, a saving of about twelve years’ time over 
root grafts of this variety. The original tree of the Avista apple is 
in this orchard and is now bearing its twenty-eighth crop (about 
twelve bushels) and looks sound and hearty enough to produce 
good crops for many years to come. In portions of the orchard 
trees are somewhat scattered from tender varieties having been 
killed out, and in all such cases the remaining trees are more robust 
and are producing larger and better crops, besides suffering less 
from blight, an object lesson that shows the fallacy of too close 
planting. In this orchard the Whitney No. 20 is used as border 
trees and fence posts, and is proving one of the most valuable sorts 
in the collection. 
