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HARDY FRUITS AT THE WEST.— The late unusually severe winters at 

 the West have enabled the residents to discover the hardy varieties of 

 fruit, as those which have escaped unscathed may with safety be so 

 classed. The following list, made up from intelligent correspondents of 

 the Annual Register, may be relied on for endurance in future years. 



Apples. — I. C. Allen, of Lena, 111., furnishes the following results of 

 his experience : Very hardy — Oldenburgh, late strawberry. Hardy — • 

 Early Joe, early Pennock, sops-of-wine, Cooper, Fulton, fall orange, 

 mother, Fallawater, Hubbardston. nonesuch, Jonathan, limber-twig. 

 Tender — early harvest, summer bell-flower, Belmont, Hawley, Jersey 

 sweeting, Eambo, twenty-ounce, Baldwin, Dominie, English russet. King, 

 Newtown pippin, golden sweet. 



E. Ordwat, of Freeport, III., gives the following list of such varieties 

 as have withstood the late severe winters there : Tallman sweeting, yel- 

 low bell-flower, seek-no-fnrther, golden russet, Northern spy, white win- 

 ter pearmain, wine-sap, Fallawater, maiden's blush, red Canada, sops-of- 

 wine, and large and small Romanite. 



Samuel Edwards, La Moille, 111., gives the following as the most 

 hardy and valuable : red June, high-top sweeting, hocking, early Pen- 

 nock, Keswick codlin, maiden's blush, fameuse, Westfield seek-nofur- 

 tlier, yellow bell-flower, white winter pearmain, Fulton, red Romanite. 



Dr. S. L. Pennington, Sterling, 111. Hardy, or but slightly injured 

 — yellow bell-flower, Westfield soek-no-further, fameuse, black Detroit, 

 wine-sap, porarae grise, Lowell, red June, willow-twig, early nonpareil. 

 Tender — Baldwin, Porter, Rhode Island greening, Roxbury russet, Ort- 

 ley, sweet-bough, Rambo. 



E. H. Skinner, McHenry Co., 111. Yot summer — Red Astrachan and 

 Carolina red June. For autumn — Porter. Early winter — fameuse. 

 Winter and spring — Jonathan, Rawles' Janet, English russet. 



J. S. Sherman, Rockford, 111. Sweet June, Baldwin, Tompkin's 

 County King, Wagener, and most of the hardiest in Western New 

 York, except Rhode Island greening, and sweet-bough. Maiden's 

 blush and yellow bell-flower succeed admirably. 



B. W. Stberb,' of Adrian, Mich., mentions as particularly tender, 

 English and Roxbury russets, Gravenstein, Baldwin, and Rhode Island 

 greening — the latter becomes hardier with age, but is an uncertain 

 bearer. 



Amasa Stewart, of Le Seur, Minnesota. Early harvest, early straw- 

 berry, red Astrachan, maiden's blush, fameuse, Harrison, white bell- 

 flower. The Rambo was tender. 



F. K. Phcenix, Bloomington, 111., who has also made extensive ob 

 servations in Wisconsin, names the following hardy apples : Summer — 

 Carolina June, sweet June, red Astrachan, sops of-wine, Benoni, summer 

 pearmain. Autumn — autumn strawberry. Dyer, fall orange, Haskell 

 sweet, Gabriel, Northern sweet, Oldenburgh, St. Lawrence. Winter — 

 yellow bell-flower, Carthouse, limber-twig, Romanstem, white winter pear- 

 main, seek-no-further, Tallman sweet, wine-sap, monstrous pippin, Eng- 

 lish golden russet, willow-twig, winter sweet paradise, Campfield sweet. 



Ohio Pomological Society, 1857, from the report of various mem- 

 bers: Carolina red June, fine in Central Indiana, poor in southern 



