SUGGESTIONS TO WISCONSIN FRUIT-GROWERS. 483 
of Wisconsin receives the full impression of the sub-arctic 
blasts, sweeping down from the Rocky Mountains and the 
plains of Nebraska. 
This view may discourage the indolent, but on the energetic 
and persevering it should produce a different effect. An object 
gained by exertion is enhanced in value. Cobbett says : “ In 
England, where water-melons are raised only under glass, and 
with great pains, the fruit is transported to market wrapped, 
like a delicate infant, in a napkin ; while in the United States, 
where they are grown with little care, they are tipped by cart¬ 
loads upon the sidewalks like potatoes. A peach raised under 
the frowning skies of Moscow would command more value than 
fifty specimens from the sunny South. The above cited facts 
from Pallas should afford both instruction and stimulus to in¬ 
creased effort to fruit-growers in this country, who are now 
contending with several impediments to their pursuits. 
If the inhospitable climate of Moscow, and especially if the 
stolidity of the Russians, as they were in the last century, 
could then be overcome by indefatigable industry, so far as to 
produce such results, may we not confidently anticipate that 
the active and intelligent population of your State, command¬ 
ing the improvements of modern arts and sciences, will success¬ 
fully triumph over the comparatively trivial contingency arising 
from your climate ? 
The same amount of indefatigable exertion, judicously di¬ 
rected, would enable each of you to literally sit under his own 
vine and fig tree. 
This desirable end may be attained by 
1st. Furnishing artificial protection to vines and fruit trees; 
2d. Selecting for cultivation the most hardy kinds; and 
3d. Producing new varieties adapted to the soil and climate. 
ls£. Artificial Protection . 
Under this head may be arranged all structures such as hot 
and green houses, and conservatories, down to hot-beds, cold- 
frames, walls, matting, and other expedients. 
