WISCONSIN 



The peach and apricot are not fruitful in any part of 

 Wisconsin except after unusually mild winters. The 

 trees are frequently grown iu giirilens, and sometimes 

 attain considerable size, but they freeze back more or 

 less in the average winter. Trees of the apricot imported 

 from Russia have been frequently planted in Wisconsin, 

 by way of experiment, but are nowhere fruitful. Even 

 if the flower-buds escape destruc- 

 tion, the fruit almost invariably 

 falls soon after setting. 



The grape, with winter protec- 

 tion, is successfully grown through- 

 out southern and eastern Wiscon- 

 sin when planted on light soil, with 

 southern exposure. The later va- 

 rieties are, however, liable to be 

 caught by frost, unless the site is 

 chosen with special care. 



The small fruits are grown with 

 marked success, on favorable soils, 

 throughout Wisconsin. Winter pro- 

 tection is generally given to all but 

 the currant and gooseberry, but in 

 the southern and eastern "counties 

 this precaution is not absolutely 

 necessary. The strawberry and 

 raspberry are grown in excess of 

 home demands, and many thousand 

 cases of these fruits are annually 

 shipped to other states. Black- 

 berries were largely destroved bv 

 the severe freeze of"lS99. Huckle- 

 berries and blueberries are exten- 

 sively gathered from wild plants 

 in certain parts of west -central 

 Wisconsin, and are shipped in 

 large quantities to cities of the 

 northwest. Wisconsin is one of 

 the chief cranberry producing 

 states. In parts of Wood, Adams 

 and Juneau counties, and in less 

 degree in Waupaca and Green 

 counties, the cranberry plant was 

 native over very large areas, and 

 before the settlement of the coun- 

 try, the Indians gathered the fruit 

 extensively in bearing years. Lat- 

 terly, the wild marshes have been 

 largely improved by clearing and 

 providing flooding facilities. In 

 some seasons the total output of 

 cranberries from Wisconsin has 

 aggregated nearly 100,000 barrels. 

 The varieties grown are mostly na 

 five, and the quality and keeping 

 of the fruit are excellent. During 

 the years 1894 and 1895 the cran- 

 berry industry of Wisconsin suf- 

 fered a serious check by the de- 

 struction of many marshes by fire 

 during an exceptionally dry period. 

 But the business is rallying, and 

 may, in a few years, recover its 

 former magnitude. 



Market - gardening is carried on 

 in the neighborhood of cities and 

 towns to a sufiicient e.xtent to supply local demand: 



WISTARIA 



1987 



Horticulture is taught at the agricultural college con- 

 nected with the University of Wisconsin, at Madison. 



Openings are good for commercial culture of apples, 

 cherries, native plums and cranberries in the parts of 

 Wisconsin best suited to these crops, and in the neigh- 

 borhood of northern cities the growing of vegetables for 

 market is at present remunerative. v s nnv^ 



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except 111 thr . 

 The onliiKi. ^ 

 all sue. --I 

 for shipiii. HI in 

 grown for seed, f. 

 and Door countii' 

 weevil. Lentils 

 and Manitowoc cr 

 tories are in opi- 

 and tomatoes l.i-i: 

 ing is less pra.'t 



northern part of the state. 

 ps of the temperate zone are 

 are grown rather extensively 



should be. 

 lor, and the 



WISTARIA (Caspar Wistar, 1761-1818, professor of 

 anatomy in Univ. of Pa.). Jjegumindscp, As a genus 

 Wistaria is a small and imperfectly understood group. 

 A complete study of the pods and seeds of this and allied 

 genera will eventually result in a great shaking up of 

 iKiiiifs. The present treatment is as conservative as 

 ]..iv^il,], . out of deferenre to trade interests. The oldest 



nuntiuuL-d below, there are three species, but they are 

 all of doubtful botanical status. Lvs. odd-pinnate; Ifts. 

 entire: racemes terminal: calyx with the 2 upper teeth 

 short and subconnate: standard large; wings oblong- 

 falcate, free from the keel, often coherent at the apex: 

 keel incurved, obtuse. 



}Vistaria Chinensis is one of the best and commonest 

 of hardy climbers. It has pale green, pinnate foliage and 



