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trade, and who put all energy and skill to meet the peculiar wants 
of the West into their business that its importance demands, but 
alas for the irresponsible go-betweens, for curses follow their advent 
in any community. Any careful estimate will show that four-fifths 
to nine-tenths of the successful trees of our orchards of southern 
Wisconsin, or up to the fifth tier of counties, are of less than twen¬ 
ty varieties, and of these about one-lialf are not known or not gen¬ 
erally grown in eastern and southern nurseries, which must of ne¬ 
cessity follow the main demand of eastern and southern planters 
for their old favorites, in their propagation. 
Up to the last twenty years, we followed implicitly the eastern 
recommendations. Ten years of doubting and further trial follow¬ 
ed, and during the last ten years we have settled upon a reliable list 
of apples, that we can grow up to the latitude of Green Bay with 
entire success. This list varies somewhat of course in different lo¬ 
calities, but the adaptation of varieties to these differences is so well 
established that we have every reason to expect an entire change in 
the aspect of the average orchard of the future planting. In this 
view of the case, one of the most hopeful indications of future suc¬ 
cess, is the general demand for the “hardy list” for all present 
planting. 
The agreement of Wisconsin fruit-growers in this matter is so 
uniform, that every nurserymens 1 catalogue of hardy varieties be¬ 
gins with Astrachan and Tetofski, and ends with Ben Davis or 
Walbridge, with its filling in of seasonable varieties for every taste 
and season, for home use and market. 
The demand for hardy varieties, has induced a careful search among 
the millions of new seedlings of the West, for additional worthy 
sorts, which have especial merit. The result will be an increase of 
varieties, having especial adapations to our needs. But this in¬ 
crease will not be as rapid as some suppose, for our present list is the 
result of sifting of the choicest gems of the last three hundred years 
of European experiment, and two hundred years of American test, 
resifted in over thirty years trial in Wisconsin; and the sifting goes 
on still, but “slow and sure” applies here, and many a fond hope 
must be blasted in the rejection of personal favorities from want of 
general adaptation. 
If any locations are naturally so unfavorable as to render any of 
these u iron-clads” uncertain, then we have the new Siberian hv- 
