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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
carae discouraged, and^believed in time, that Wisconsin would never be a fruit 
stajje. A better state of feeling prevails now; there is no discouragement 
in this county. There is no man in this county, of any intelligence, but 
knows that certain kinds of trees will succeed with proper care, and that cer¬ 
tain other kinds will fail, under any circumstances. Not that every man, or 
indeed any man knows, all of the varieties that are thus sure of success or 
failure, but a sufficient number of varieties have been found to guide any man 
in starting an orchard or fruit farm. 
It was a fine thought in the horticultural society to select that list of fine ap¬ 
ples, against which nothing need be said. They are all known an! appreci- 
ate(f in this county. One of them (Duchess of Orenburg) was introduced at 
a very early day into this t07?n by Wm. C. Sherwood, Esq., and there aro 
few ore ards in the county but contain more or less of them, and T believe it 
to be the most popular early apple in this part of the country. Of course 
the apple is the principal fruit here. Pears, plums, cherries and even 
peaches are grown to some extent. Everybody has a grape vine, but there 
are no vineyards in the county yet. Currants, raspberries and strawberries do 
well. Delaware and Concord are the favorite grapes, Wilson’s Albany the 
most popular strawberry. 
There seems to be two things required to make this a first class county, 
to-wit; a sure market and a few more failures of the wheat crop. 
Perhaps I ought to say that the bark louse is known here, and blessings on 
the head of the man that shall provide a remedy for it. 
Respectfully, 
M. H. POWERS. 
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Berlin, Dec., 14, 1868. 
0. S. WlLLEV, 
Secretary Wisconsin State Horticultural Society : 
Dear Sir: —Agreeably to your request, under date of 10th inst,, I will en¬ 
deavor to give you some information in regard to the conditions of the or¬ 
chards in this section of the state. 
The apple orchards it is safe to say, are improving j^early, from the fact 
that the early-planted orchards contained many sorts of trees not adapted to 
our climate. They were mostly brought in here from the east by peddlers, 
and sold under the name of any sort desired by the planters, and conse¬ 
quently our first planting was mostly a failure; but now, having ascertained 
the kinds adapted to our climate, and our home nurseries being fairly estab¬ 
lished, the planter generally understands what sorts he needs, and obtains a 
good class of trees, mostly true to name. We have here some fine thrifty 
orchards which have been and promise to be remunerative to the owners, and 
to the inhabitants generally sources of health and pleasure ; as nothing adds 
more to the attractiveness of home and country than an abundance of fruit. 
What we need most now is an addition of a few new kinds of hardy varie¬ 
ties of late winter apples, of first quality, and it is worthy the attention of 
fruit-growers to endeavor to obtain from seedlings some new varieties just 
