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STATE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
THE RUBICON APPLE 
originated in Miclaigan, where it is said to be very hardy, so 
much so as to be called by some the “ oak grub variety.” 
Mr. L. L. Hall, horticulturist of Van Buren Co., Michigan, 
says he has over one hundred varieties in cultivation, and 
thinks the Kubicon the most hardy of any^ and has no doubt 
but that it will stand our climate, and be a great acquisition to 
our fruit. In a letter from Mr. Hall, in March last, he says: 
“It is bound to be the leading market apple of the west. It 
is the most beautiful and long-keeping apple in cultivation. It 
keeps until July and August. It is a smooth, scarlet-red apple, 
about the size of the Baldwin, but every way superior.” 
These good traits of quality and hardiness are confirmed 
for it as far as tried in Minnesota and Wisconsin, and I trust 
that a wider and more extensive acquaintance with it, over a 
larger and more varied portion of our state, will confirm all 
that has been said of it, and, if so, too much praise cannot be 
given to I. Could of Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, for exhibiting 
the fruit at the state horticultural annual meeting, and thus 
bring it to the notice of our fruit-growers. 
