FRUITS—TENDER AND HARDY. 
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FRUITS—TENDER AND HARDY VARIETIES. 
BY F. W. LAUDON, OF JANESVILLE. 
Dear Sir: —Thirteen years ago, I procured of one of the 
oldest nurserymen in the State about fifty varieties of apples 
which I set out in a stiff, clayey loam, in the “ openings;” 
they have had the best care, and are now seventeen years old. 
Up to this time they have not borne fruit enough to pay the 
cost of the trees. I know not the cause of my failure; perhaps 
it is owing to the varieties not being adapted to the climate and 
soil. The trees have blossomed profusely for seven or eight 
years. 
I have another orchard comprising 100 varieties, planted on 
the farm, in a clayey loam, with a clay sub soil, on a northern 
exposure. The trees have grown and blossomed well, but do 
not bear more than from one to a dozen fruits each. The va¬ 
rieties that bear well here, such as the Rambo, Golden Russet, 
German Bough and others, bear constantly. I have thought 
the difficulty might be that our soils were deficient in mineral 
salts or alkalies ; lime, we know, changes the vegetable matter 
of the soil, and enables all useful compounds both organic and 
inorganic, to enter into the circulation of fruits; it neutralizes 
the acidity of soils. 
It would occupy too much space to give the names of apples 
that prove hardy here. I give in the list below, the names of 
those that have proved tender. I have tested nearly all the 
varieties to be found in the West. 
Tender varieties of the apple—Early Strawberry, Autumn 
Strawberry, Baldwin, Lady Apple, Northern Spy, iEsopus 
Spitzenberg, Vandervere, Norton’s Melon, Cloth of Gold, 
Westfield Seek-no-further. 
