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necessary, except to take out decaying limbs and to preserve the balance 
of the tree. 
I shall say nothing on the subject of gathering and keeping the fruit, 
except that that for winter use should be allowed to hang as long as pos¬ 
sible without freezing—it should then be picked, not shaken off—it should 
then be placed, not thrown into barrels—put into a dry cellar or fruit- 
room, and be exposed as little as possible to light and air. 
Having finished what I had to say of our hardier fruits, I now proceed 
to redeem my promise to refer again to some of the tender ones—the 
peach especially ; and what I shall say in relation to this delicious fruit, 
is the result of many years observation, not in one place, but in a range 
from the thirty-seventh to the forty-fourth degrees of latitude. 
First then, can peaches be grown successfully in Wisconsin ? I answer, 
unhesitatingly, in the affirmative ; but it must be done as it is done in all 
other countries north of 35 degrees of latitude, by depending solely on 
the fruits native to the climate in which you would cultivate them, accom¬ 
panied of course by proper culture and pruning. 
From 1823 to 1833, almost the entire of the State of Indiana north of 
Knox county, was twice robbed, by cold weather, of almost every peach 
tree in the country—the same thing occurred, north of the same line, in 
the State of Illinois—these are now two of the finest peach growing re¬ 
gions in all the Western and middle States. I was myself a great sufferer 
by loss of peach trees in both of these States within the above named 
periods. I used either trees brought from abroad, it being then a new 
eountry, or trees which were budded there, from varieties brought from 
abroad. In their liabilities to suffer from the climate, I saw no difference 
in these two kinds of trees, and we were not successful in either of the 
States, until, from the seedlings raised there, we had selected good vari¬ 
eties and propagated from them—precisely the same thing we are now 
witnessing in Wisconsin ; we have been taking trees brought from abroad, 
or propagating directly by budding from varieties brought from abroad, 
and by the time the tree has arrived at maturity it has dwindled into 
such a worthless thing, as to have contributed to the significant result, 
that nearly three quarters of all the premium peaches at our fairs in the 
last two years have been seedlings. But few varieties of the peach will 
