STATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETT. 129 



FROM HOM. PARKER P. BURLEIGH, Linneus. 



I set out the first apple trees on my farm about the year 1848. 

 There were 312 in number. I sei out native trees raised in a nursery 

 in this county, as it was supposed, at that time, that grafted trees 

 could not be successfully raised in this cold climate. For many 

 years after the trees were set out, I was not much of the time 

 engaged in farming, and my apple trees were neglected, and for many 

 3'ears the grass was removed from the orchard and no manure 

 returned, and when I returned to my farm in the year 1884, the trees 

 presented a sad appearance. There were many hollow hearted and 

 nearly worthless trees, and on others there were many dead and 

 dying limbs. I immediately went to work and removed all the 

 worthless trees and set out young grafted trees. I then cut off all 

 the dead and dying limbs from the remaining trees and covered the 

 wounds with gum shellac. I then grafted one-third of the top of 

 each tree selecting the highest limbs. The next year 1 grafted 

 another third of the tops, selecting the next highest limbs, and the 

 third year, in 1886, I grafted the remaining third or lowest limbs. 

 I have pastured sheep in the orchard every year since I commenced 

 grafting the trees, and have applied a small quantity of wood ashes, 

 salt and lime, and the trees are growing rapidly and none have been 

 winter killed, with the exception of the Rhode Island Greening, 

 Baldwin and Sweet Greening which are too tender for this cold 

 climate. 



The varieties I have now growing in my orchard are as follows : 



Wealthy, Canada Red, Winthrop Greening, Fall Harvey, Summer 

 Sweeting, Gideon, Summer Russet, Pewaukee, Yellow Belleflower, 

 Golden, White Belleflower, Mcintosh Red, Scott's Winter, Sweet 

 Greening, Yellow Transparent, Black Oxford, English Russet, 

 Magog Redstreak, Golden Russet, Granite Beauty, Red Astrachan, 

 Leonard Sweet, Talman's Sweet, Rhode Island Greening, Fameuse, 

 Golden Russet, Blue Pearmain, Ben Davis, Northern Spy, Tetofsky, 

 Duchess of Oldenburg, Nodhead, Alexander, Nonsuch. 



All of the trees grafted with the above-named varieties withstand 

 the winter and are not injured by the cold with the exception of the 

 three varieties I have named. I have also several pear trees of the 



